Outstart

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To start out or up. intransitive, obsolete

    "Once again outstarted beads of anguish upon John's furrowed brow, his hands knit to quivering fists, his grey eyes, their steadfast serenity quite gone, wavered […]"

Example

More examples

"Once again outstarted beads of anguish upon John's furrowed brow, his hands knit to quivering fists, his grey eyes, their steadfast serenity quite gone, wavered […]"

Etymology

From out- + start.

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