outwatch

[ out-woch ]

verb (used with object)

1. to outdo or surpass in watching.
2. to watch, or maintain a vigil, until the end of:

   The mourners had outwatched the night.

Word History and Origins

Origin of outwatch¹

First recorded in 1620–30; out- + watch

Example Sentences

Outwatch, owt-wawch′, v.t. to watch longer than.

From Project Gutenberg

His followers in-510- the barge or villa, his valet-de-chambre and butler, his lackeys who outwatch the night, get paid.

From Project Gutenberg

This is man's guise to please himself, when he Shall not see one thing of his pleasant things, Nor with outwatch of many travailings Come to be eased of the least pain he hath For all his love and all his foolish wrath And all the heavy manner of his mind.

From Project Gutenberg

Resuming his spectacles, and wrapped in his cloak, he occasionally sallied forth upon a kind of outwatch or reconnoitring expedition—restricting himself, however, to the immediate neighborhood, and never going quite out of sight of his house.

From Project Gutenberg

All night her locks are wet with dew, Her eyes outwatch the moon.

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