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English
Etymology
From out- + strike.
Verb
outstrike (third-person singular simple present outstrikes, present participle outstriking, simple past outstruck, past participle outstruck or outstricken)
- (transitive) To strike faster or harder than.
c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] This blows my heart:
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel.
1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50:Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands,
Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.
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