outwrest

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ wrest.

Verb

outwrest (third-person singular simple present outwrests, present participle outwresting, simple past and past participle outwrested)

1. (rare) To pull out forcibly; to yank out.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]