outwrest
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[edit]outwrest (third-person singular simple present outwrests, present participle outwresting, simple past and past participle outwrested)
- (rare) To pull out forcibly; to yank out.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]