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Etymology

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From out- +‎ shrill.

Verb

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outshrill (third-person singular simple present outshrills, present participle outshrilling, simple past and past participle outshrilled)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in shrilling; to cry louder than.
    • 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul, page 94:
      Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell.
    • 2012, Wendy Perriam, The Stillness The Dancing:
      For one terrifying moment, she felt nothing beneath her feet; empty space whirling round and past her, the slang and heckle of the wind outshrilling her own shriek of fear.
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