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outdin en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + din.

Meanings

1. To din more loudly than, make a louder noise than (someone or something).
   • He stood there, his heart beating so loud that it seemed to outdin the patter of the rain upon the leaves, until the mysterious figure disappeared from view. 1899, A. Eric Bayly, chapter 3, in The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story, New York: Dutton, page 26:
   • 1664, James Howell, Florus Hungaricus, London: Hen[ry] Marsh, Book 2, p. 49, […] divine Providence was pleased by these frequent and ruinous losses and slaughters, upon the neck of one another, to bring these barbarous Huns to an humble sense of their calamitous and ruinous condition, and by that prepare and soften their minds to the Reception of the great Evangelicall truth, against whose Innocent Doctrine, the applauses of their Triumphs and the noising loud Fame of their puissance and successe had out-dinn’d the Trumpets of the Prince of Peace […]
   • 1900, Richard Hovey, “When the Priest Left” in Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, Last Songs from Vagabondia, Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1903, p. 53, What did he say? To seek love otherwhere Nor bind the soul to clay? It may be so—I cannot tell— But I know that life is fair, And love’s bold clarion in the air Outdins his little vesper-bell.
   • Anon, came on a crew that swift outsped, And soon outdinned with more relentless curse, This bitter cursing crowd. 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-Rhyme, London: Jeremiah How, Book 2, Stanza 50, p. 67:

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