outshrill

English

Etymology

out- +‎ shrill

Verb

outshrill (third-person singular simple present outshrills, present participle outshrilling, simple past and past participle outshrilled)

1. (transitive) To surpass in shrilling; to cry louder than.
   • 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul, page 94:

     Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.

   • 2012, Wendy Perriam, The Stillness The Dancing:

     For one terrifying moment, she felt nothing beneath her feet; empty space whirling round and past her, the slang and heckle of the wind outshrilling her own shriek of fear.