outset
/ˈaʊtsɛt/ verb C2- To cause (a design element) to extend around the outside of something else, the opposite of being inset.
He/she/it outsets · Past outset · Past participle outset · -ing form outsetting
Verb forms
- Base form
- outset
- He/she/it
- outsets
- Past
- outset
- Past participle
- outset
- -ing form
- outsetting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
Should it prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to follow it from the outset.
There are two questions waiting for us at the outset.
Of course, I had at the outset no particular reason to connect these journeys with the disappearance of Godfrey Staunton, and was only inclined to investigate them on the general grounds that everything which concerns Dr.
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