outwin
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English outwinnen, equivalent to out- + win.
Verb edit
outwin (third-person singular simple present outwins, present participle outwinning, simple past and past participle outwon)
- (obsolete) To win a way out (of); to escape (from). [15th–17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- It is a darksome delve farre under ground, / With thornes and barren brakes environd round, / That none the same may easily out-win […]