Word: outserved
Part of speech: Verb
Syllables: out
served
Definition: Simple past tense and past participle of outserve. To serve more or better than.
Morphemes:
Affix: out-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Forms verbs with the sense of surpassing or exceeding the prefixed word, which need not be a verb itself.
Affix: serve
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To usefully take the place as instead of something else.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: serviō
Language: la
Decoded: servio
Meaning: be a slave; serve
Affix: -d
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form past participles of (regular) verbs. See -en and -t for variants.