outwrest

verb

outwrest

verb

Etymology From out- + wrest.

1

Rare To pull out forcibly; to yank out.

my engreeued mind could find no rest, / Till that the truth thereof I did outwrest […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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