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  • verb transitive To yell more loudly than.

Etymologies

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out- +‎ yell

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Examples

  • In fairness, it is this author's contention that shouting matches and trying to "outyell" your opponents is not an appropriate and recommended way to engage in debate.

    ASU Web Devil - ASU's Online News Source - 2009

  • And likely is doing the best she can, with rationalizations trying to outyell the reservations.

    The Mom in the Mirror | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • And likely is doing the best she can, with rationalizations trying to outyell the reservations.

    The Mom in the Mirror 2007

  • The man who is bigger, who can outyell and outstare us, who can hit us without our hitting him, and who can keep us from moving, does originally extort a crestfallen, abashed physique and mind.

    Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

  • 'Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the Typhoons.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • Perhaps the written shouting is just another version of what happens on television, where if two people disagree they simply try to outyell each other.

    Blog updates 2009

  • Perhaps the written shouting is just another version of what happens on television, where if two people disagree they simply try to outyell each other.

    Blog updates 2009

  • Perhaps the written shouting is just another version of what happens on television, where if two people disagree they simply try to outyell each other.

    Blog updates 2009

  • While some white men express anger in violence against women too, Joan’s experience suggests the kind of paradigm shift that can provide black women with a new way of examining potential partners— a shift away from the kind of man who can outyell us or do even worse.

    Don’t Bring Home a White Boy KARYN LANGHORNE FOLAN 2010

  • “Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

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