Verb (used without object) : Swimmers from many nations were vying for the title.    From Dictionary.com. 

If the poor are fond of display, the rich outvie them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

By charms that glorify the place and every charm outvie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

For the heart's dance, outvie all, the songs of the dairy!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

And if traditions be of any use, they can outvie all the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

When shows that slender form that doth the willow-branch outvie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Long years of pleasure outvie! 'he exclaims, and wishes that his own end could be fair as that of one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Writers] Reference

If thou hadst never met mine eye, I had not dreamed a living face Could fancied charms so far outvie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference

And, indeed, they showed the greatest emulation to outvie each other; especially Nicocreon, king of Salamis, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans] Reference

States they had been known to outvie the speed of an express train, occasionally attaining a rate of more than a hundred miles an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

What aspirations, wishes, outvie thine and ours O soul?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

Fair is his person, and his shape the spear-shaft doth outvie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

Let us hencefbi be one family, and have no other conteft bat outvie in love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition ...] Reference

Let zeal, let love for our lost one spur each to outvie the efforts of another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference

Oriental monarch who is determined to outvie magnificently the gifts of another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clayhanger] Reference

The average wool-sorter will outvie an artist in his perception of colour shades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance] Reference

Her main endeavor in this is to outvie her neighbors in the extravagance of fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)] Reference

Having once consented to swindle, he had to outvie every lie by a new and bigger one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dame Care] Reference

Indeed, it seemed impossible for either author to outvie the other in success and glory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Men] Reference

They are mounted upon horses "whose whiteness might outvie the purest snow upon the frozen Alps.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossip in a Library] Reference

The emperor and the queen strove to outvie each other in the richness and elegance of their gifts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Empire of Russia] Reference

In the giddy velocity of this dance, lady Jacintha contrived to outvie the attitudes of Miss Macdonald.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference

Yea, by my life, such virtues in goodly brownness lie, One spot thereof makes whiteness the shining moons outvie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

A rose hath ta'en me captive, whose colours varied are, Whose charms outvie the myrtle and make its thorns despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Nor with her brightness, anywise, can saffron hold compare, And even the very moon herself her charms outvie by far.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

A great many undertake endless suits and outvie one another who shall most enrich the dilatory judge or corrupt advocate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise of Folly] Reference

Not only did he love his work with all the passion of a creator, he was also concerned to outvie his professional rivals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platform Monologues] Reference

Indeed, the only emu - lation between them is to outvie each other in tendernefs, in friendfhip, in gen - tlenefs of manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Henrietta to Morvina. Interspersed with Anecdotes, Historical and Amusing, of the ...] Reference

Without waiting for a request, they were apparently striving to outvie each other in performing little services for the old man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home in the Valley] Reference

Often he remembered it in later life; it held a place and commanded a mood which no hour of his wildest possession could outvie.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference

But nature often takes a fancy to outvie her skilful and ambitious handmaiden, and is always certain to succeed in the competition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Widow's Dog] Reference

Even the looms of modern Brussels, in elegance and beauty of pattern, cannot fairly outvie the Mosaic Carpets of the antient Romans.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Walk through Leicester being a Guide to Strangers] Reference

Thus he attained wealth which made him the richest subject in Europe, and which enabled him almost to outvie the splendors of royalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Philippe Makers of History Series] Reference

Nights grew restless with Meditation of new Dresses to outvie each other, and inventing new Devices to recal Admirers, who observed the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays] Reference