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OUTSPAN
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected forms: outspanned , outspanning
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they outspan ... he / she / it outspans
Past simple: outspanned
-ing form: outspanning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Remove the yoke or harness from
Example:
outspan the draft animals
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "outspan" is one way to...):
unyoke (remove the yoke from)
unharness (remove the harness from)
Domain category:
animal husbandry (breeding and caring for farm animals)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
inspan (attach a yoke or harness to)