outlash

English

Etymology

out- + lash

Noun

outlash (plural outlashes)

  1. The act of somebody lashing out.
    • 1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 4, in Daniel Deronda, volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
      We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment, but a room is wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance.

Verb

outlash (third-person singular simple present outlashes, present participle outlashing, simple past and past participle outlashed)

  1. (rare) To lash out.

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