outwhirl

present singular third person outwhirls · participle present outwhirling · participle past outwhirled · past outwhirled

1. raretransitiveTo surpass in whirling or spinning.

   O Cynthia! why so pale? Dost thou lament Thy wretched neighbour? Grieve to see thy wheel Of ceaseless change outwhirl'd in human life?

   1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, Night I

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   I want to interrogate Anna's grandmother to learn the grace of her dervish heritage, to see her perform the whirl—forbidden to females—in the intimacy of her home, where, Anna's mother told me, she was renowned for outwhirling even the fittest of men.

   2013, Tessa McWatt, Vital Signs, page 18