outstrike

English

Etymology

out- +‎ strike

Verb

outstrike (third-person singular simple present outstrikes, present participle outstriking, simple past outstruck, past participle outstruck or outstricken)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To strike faster or harder than.
   • c. 1606 William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 6,^[1]

     […] This blows my heart:

     If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean

     Shall outstrike thought: but thought will do’t, I feel.

   • 1659, William Davenant, The Siege of Rhodes, London: Henry Herringman, Part 2, Act 5, p. 50,^[2]

     Solyman. […] Few Rhodian Knights, making their several stands,

     Out-strike Assemblies of our many Hands.

Anagrams

• strike out, strikeout