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outwind en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

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• /aʊtˈwaɪnd/

Etymology

From out- + wind.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To extricate by winding; to unloose.
   • Dear Psittacuse! when shalt thou once outwind / Thy self from this sad yoke? 1647, Henry More, “[Philosophical Poems.] Psychozoia, or The First Part of the Song of the Soul, Containing a Christiano-Platonicall Display of Life.”, in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More (1614–1687) […] (Chertsey Worthies’ Library), [Edinburgh: […] Edinburgh University Press; Thomas and Archibald Constable, […]] for private circulation, published 1878, →OCLC, canto II, stanza 71, page 25:
   • they haue him enclosed so behind, / As by no meanes he can himselfe outwind 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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outwind en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From out- + wind.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To surpass in wind or breath.
   • The urchin had an elasticity of muscle, a capacity of stretch and endurance in his sinews, and a share of positive strength in his excessive breadth of shoulders, which made him little inferior in conflict to most ordinary men, and in speed he could have outwinded the best. 1840, William Gilmore Simms, Border Beagles: A Tale of Mississippi:

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