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outstrike en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + strike.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To strike faster or harder than.
   • […] This blows my heart: If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel. c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
   • Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands, Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands. 1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50:

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