outwin

English

Etymology

From Middle English outwinnen, equivalent to out- +‎ win.

Verb

outwin (third-person singular simple present outwins, present participle outwinning, simple past and past participle outwon)

1. (obsolete) To win a way out (of); to escape (from). [15th–17th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     It is a darksome delve farre under ground, / With thornes and barren brakes environd round, / That none the same may easily out-win […]

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• win out