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outˈstink, v.
[out- 18 c, 18.]
1. trans. To overpower or drive out by stench.
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 86 African oile..out-stinks, nay drives-away African, or the most rank, serpents.
2. To stink more than, surpass in stench.
c1620Trag. Barnavelt ii. vi. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 241 Body a me, How their feare outstincks their garlick! 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini, Pol. Touchstone (1674) 290 Assafœtida that would out-stink a Pole-cat. 1808Southey Lett. (1856) II. 74 In Borrowdale there is a well which, I dare be sworn, will out-stink Leamington water. |