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Webster 1913 Edition

Outwrest

Out-wrest′

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Verb.
T.
To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Outwrest

OUTWREST

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Verb.
T.
outrest'. To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

Definition 2024

outwrest

outwrest

English

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.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:
      my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest [...].

Etymology

From out- +‎ wrest.

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