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outwresting

outwresting is the present participle and gerund of outwrest.

Meaning of outwrest

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

Questions about outwresting

What is outwresting the present participle and gerund of?
Outwresting is the present participle and gerund of outwrest.

Words near outwresting in the dictionary

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

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