outwrest

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ wrest.

Verb

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

(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 […]

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