outleap
English
Etymology
Noun
outleap (plural outleaps)
- A sally; flight; escape.
- A bursting forth; an ambush; a sudden quick effort.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter XIV, page 173
- The outleap of fury in the dagger-thrust had evidently exhausted him.
- 1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume II, Book II, Chapter XIV, page 173
Verb
outleap (third-person singular simple present outleaps, present participle outleaping, simple past and past participle outleapt or outleaped)