outstart

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ start.

Verb

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outstart (third-person singular simple present outstarts, present participle outstarting, simple past and past participle outstarted)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To start out or up.
    • 2022, Jeffery Farnol, John o' the Green:
      Once again outstarted beads of anguish upon John's furrowed brow, his hands knit to quivering fists, his grey eyes, their steadfast serenity quite gone, wavered []

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for outstart”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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