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outwrest

outwrest verb: to pull out forcibly; to yank out.

Verb

outwrest (third-person singular simple present outwrests, present participle outwresting, simple past and past participle outwrested)

  1. (rare) To pull out forcibly; to yank out.
    • my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of outwrest

third-person singular presentoutwrests
present participleoutwresting
past participleoutwrested
pastoutwrested

Origin of outwrest

From out- + wrest.

Questions about outwrest

What does outwrest mean?
Outwrest means to pull out forcibly; to yank out.
What part of speech is outwrest?
Outwrest is a verb.
What is the past tense of outwrest?
The past tense of outwrest is outwrested.

Words near outwrest in the dictionary

  1. outwrangling
  2. outwrench
  3. outwrenched
  4. outwrenches
  5. outwrenching
  6. outwrest
  7. outwrested
  8. outwresting
  9. outwrestle
  10. outwrestled
  11. outwrestles

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