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outwrest

verb

Etymology

From out- + wrest.

  1. derived from *wreiḱ-✻
  2. inherited from *wraistijaną✻
  3. inherited from wrǣstan — “to twist forcibly, wrench”
  4. inherited from wresten
  5. prefixed as outwrest — “out + wrest”

Definitions

  1. To pull out forcibly

    To pull out forcibly; to yank out.

    • my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]

The neighborhood

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