outvoice

English

Etymology

out- +‎ voice

Verb

outvoice (third-person singular simple present outvoices, present participle outvoicing, simple past and past participle outvoiced)

1. (transitive) To exceed in noise.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Behold, the English beach
     Pales in the flood with men, with wives, and boys,
     Whose shouts and claps outvoice the deep-mouth'd sea

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “outvoice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)