outlash
verbEtymology From out- + lash.
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Rare To lash out.
outlash
nounEtymology From out- + lash.
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The act of somebody lashing out.
- We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment, but a room is wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp backward stroke of repentance.1876, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 4, in Daniel Deronda, volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC: