outvoice

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ voice.

Verb

outvoice (third-person singular simple present outvoices, present participle outvoicing, simple past and past participle outvoiced)

1. (transitive) To exceed in noise.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Behold, the English beach
     Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys,
     Whose shouts and claps outvoice the deep-mouth'd sea

References

• “outvoice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.