outwrest

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verb

To pull out forcibly; to yank out.

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Meanings

verboutwrest (third-person singular simple present outwrests, present participle outwresting, simple past and past participle outwrested)

present singular third person outwrests · participle present outwresting · participle past outwrested · past outwrested

  1. rareTo pull out forcibly; to yank out.

    my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From out- + wrest.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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