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  • verb Present participle of outyell.

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Examples

  • In dark, silent places he is lying in wait for me: hearing my slow, uncertain footsteps he starts up suddenly in my path, outyelling the bearded aguaratos in the trees; and I stand paralysed, my blood curdled in my veins.

    Green Mansions 2004

  • Hand to hand was the fighting, spear and sword against bayonet and rifle around the idol, the askaris outyelling the warriors.

    Witch-Doctors Charles Beadle

  • Frantic to join the fray, they dashed off, outyelling the savages, who recoiled before the fury of their onset, thus giving the men time to escape to the fort.

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • In dark, silent places he is lying in wait for me: hearing my slow, uncertain footsteps he starts up suddenly in my path, outyelling the bearded aguaratos in the trees; and I stand paralysed, my blood curdled in my veins.

    Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest 1881

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