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verboutstream (third-person singular simple present outstreams, present participle outstreaming, simple past and past participle outstreamed)
present singular third person outstreams · participle present outstreaming · participle past outstreamed · past outstreamed
- intransitiveTo stream outward.
If there was a sharp point nearby, electricity would stream from it in a luminous brush, a little corposant, and one could blow out candles with the outstreaming “electric wind,” or even get this to turn a little rotor on its pivot.
2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood
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outstream. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstream
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“outstream.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstream. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outstream,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstream.
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