outvenom

English

Etymology

Verb

outvenom (third-person singular simple present outvenoms, present participle outvenoming, simple past and past participle outvenomed)

(transitive) To exceed in venom.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
  'Tis slander,
  Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.

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