outshout

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verb

To shout louder or longer than.

“This advertising campaign will outshout the competition.”

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outcry
OriginEnglish shout ← Middle English ut- ← Old English ūt- →
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Meanings

verboutshout (third-person singular simple present outshouts, present participle outshouting, simple past and past participle outshouted)

present singular third person outshouts · participle present outshouting · participle past outshouted · past outshouted

  1. transitiveTo shout louder or longer than.

    Ordinarily, sheʼd resort to outshouting the man.

    2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 196
  2. figurativelytransitiveTo gain more attention than.

    This advertising campaign will outshout the competition.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbshout louder than

Similar
outcry
Broader
surpassoutstripoutmatch
Also see
outcry

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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

From out- + shout.

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APA

outshout. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshout

MLA

“outshout.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshout. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outshout,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outshout.

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