out-herod Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb surpass someone in cruelty or evil

WordNet

Out-Her"od transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To surpass (Herod) in violence or wickedness; to exceed in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak.
    Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

Webster 1913