outshrill

English

Etymology

out- +‎ shrill

Verb

outshrill (third-person singular simple present outshrills, present participle outshrilling, simple past and past participle outshrilled)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in shrilling; to cry louder than.
    • 1967, Richard M. Elman, The 28th day of Elul (page 94)
      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.
    • 2012, Wendy Perriam, The Stillness The Dancing
      For one terrifying moment, she felt nothing beneath her feet; empty space whirling round and past her, the slang and heckle of the wind outshrilling her own shriek of fear.
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