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▪ I. ˈoutroar, n.
[out- 7.]
A loud noise or roar, uproar.
1845Dublin Rev. June 314 ‘God strike you, Satan’ was the Reformer's outroar. 1882in Ogilvie (Annandale). 1886in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. 1891G. Meredith One of our Conq. II. ii. 28 As it were, the towering wood-work of the cathedral organ in quake under emission of its multitudinous outroar. 1955V. Cronin Wise Man from West vii. 139 On the day of a solar eclipse..all the inhabitants of China were assembled by townships, prostrate on the ground, to frighten away with cymbals, drums and an outroar of yelling the monster that would otherwise swallow the sun.
▪ II. outroar, v.|aʊtˈrɔə(r)|
[out- 18, 18 c.]
trans. To exceed in roaring, to roar louder or more than; to drown the roaring of.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 127 O that I were Vpon the hill of Basan, to out-roare The horned Heard. 1649W. M. Wandering Jew (Halliw. 1857) 55 Lions roare, and yet at one time or other are out-roar'd. a1814Gonzaga iv. vi. in New Brit. Theatre III. 140 Let..the falling rocks Dash'd on the troubled ocean far outroar The warring elements! 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. i. vi. 98 A thrust that makes him outroar nine thousand troopers. |