outstrike

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verb

To strike faster or harder than.

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Meanings

verboutstrike (third-person singular simple present outstrikes, present participle outstriking, simple past outstruck, past participle outstruck or outstricken)

present singular third person outstrikes · participle present outstriking · past outstruck · participle past outstruck · participle past outstricken

  1. transitiveTo strike faster or harder than.

    Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands, Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.

    1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50
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    […] This blows my heart: If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel.

    c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]

Origin

From out- + strike.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

strikeout
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APA

outstrike. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstrike

MLA

“outstrike.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstrike. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outstrike,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstrike.

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