outthrow
Americanverb (used with object)
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to throw out or extend.
His arms were outthrown in greeting.
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to surpass in throwing; throw farther or more accurately than.
He can outthrow any other pitcher in the league.
Etymology
Origin of outthrow
Example Sentences
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In semi-unison, the students called to Mr. Ford: "Don't come outthrow dollars out the window."
From Time Magazine Archive
"Fifteen afore," said "London" then; Her balls full fair she gan outthrow.
From Project Gutenberg
There may, indeed, have been northern boys of thirteen who could outthrow the Terror, but not a girl in England could throw a stone straighter or harder than Erebus.
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Then I, with stammering accents, intercede, And, sore perplext, these broken words outthrow To calm her transport, 'Yea, alive, indeed,— Alive through all extremities of woe.
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For in this age, when the smallest poet seldom goes below more the most, it were a shame for a greater and more noble poet not to outthrow that cut a bar.
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