outstrain
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outstrain (third-person singular simple present outstrains, present participle outstraining, simple past and past participle outstrained)
- (transitive) To outdo by straining.
- 1891, Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine:
- The choir and congregation were evidently assembled for a shouting-match; each tuneful throat seemed emulous to outstrain the rest.
- (transitive, poetic) To strain or filter outward.
- c. 1887, George MacDonald, A Song For Christmas:
- Hark, in the organ, the caught Wind, outstraining,
Jubilant rise in a soaring prayer!