outnoise

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outnoise (third-person singular simple present outnoises, present participle outnoising, simple past and past participle outnoised)

To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness.
- 1657, Thomas Fuller, Notes upon Jonah:
  by pleading Christ His merits; that the loud language of His blood may out-noise and silence the cry of our sins.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outnoise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)