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outslung

outslung is the simple past and past participle of outsling.

Meaning of outsling

Verb

outsling (third-person singular simple present outslings, present participle outslinging, simple past and past participle outslung)

  1. (transitive) To sling more effectively than; to surpass in slinging.
    • As it now is, the enemy outshoot and outsling us so far that the Cretan archers and our javelineers cannot reach them.1851, Henry William Herbert, The Captains of the Old World, page 34
  2. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To hurl outward.
    • And thundering engine murderous balls outsling1876, Edward Shepherd Creasy, Memoirs of Eminent Etonians, page 161

Questions about outslung

What is outslung the simple past and past participle of?
Outslung is the simple past and past participle of outsling.

Words near outslung in the dictionary

  1. outslopes
  2. outslug
  3. outslugged
  4. outslugging
  5. outslugs
  6. outslung
  7. outslunk
  8. outslut
  9. outsluts
  10. outslutted
  11. outslutting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outslung (page history and authors); outsling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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