outrise

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noun

Revolt, rebellion, or uprising.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

nounoutrise (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableRevolt, rebellion, or uprising.

    There was no outrise or revolt against it. It was not broken up by violence.

    2003, Thomas P. O'Neill, James Fintan Lalor, page 142
verboutrise (third-person singular simple present outrises, present participle outrising, simple past outrose, past participle outrisen)

present singular third person outrises · participle present outrising · past outrose · participle past outrisen

  1. transitiveTo rise to a greater height or level than.

    Warmer water increases the expansion pressure and gives greater artesian pressure. For this reason a warm well will outrise a similar cool well.

    1948, Long Island Forum Volume 11, page 177
  2. transitiveTo surpass in growth, prominence, or development.

    I don't mean to say that we are going to outrise San Francisco, but to be a twin city to the one over the bay. We can be such a city with the population, growth and development that are coming our way.

    1907, Oakland Tribune 1907-04-17, page 5
  3. transitiveTo rise earlier than.

    How many there are that take pleasure in toil; that can outrise the sun, outwatch the moon, and outrun the fields’ wild beasts!

    1839, The Saturday Magazine Vol 15 Iss 464, page 117
  4. intransitiveobsoleteTo rise up in revolt or rebellion.

    I say such a war would propagate itself throughout Europe […] and sooner or later will cause Europe to outrise.

    1914, James Connolly, Labour in rish History, page 188

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úd
  2. Proto-Germanic*ūt
  3. Proto-Germanic*ūt-
  4. Old Englishūt-
  5. Middle Englishut-
  6. Englishout-
  7. Englishrise
  8. Englishoutrise

From out- + rise.

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