Outshrill

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To surpass in shrilling; to cry louder than. transitive

    "Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell."

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"Once again she had been stricken, beaten down, so violated that to give utterance to her feelings might have outshrilled all the criers in hell."

Etymology

From out- + shrill.

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