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outthrow

[out-throh]

verb (used with object)

outthrew, outthrown, outthrowing. 
  1. to throw out or extend.

    His arms were outthrown in greeting.

  2. to surpass in throwing; throw farther or more accurately than.

    He can outthrow any other pitcher in the league.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of outthrow1

1250–1300; Middle English. See out-, throw
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Example Sentences

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In semi-unison, the students called to Mr. Ford: "Don't come outthrow dollars out the window."

"Fifteen afore," said "London" then; Her balls full fair she gan outthrow.

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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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