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单词 outstink
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outstinkv.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈstɪŋk/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈstɪŋk/
Inflections: Past tense outstank, outstunk; past participle outstunk;
Forms: see out- prefix and stink v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, stink v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + stink v. With sense 2 compare to stink out at stink v. 2c.
1. transitive. To surpass in stinking (in various senses of the verb); to smell more or more pungently than.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink of [verb (transitive)] > stink more than
outsmell1603
overstinka1616
outstinka1640
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Trag. Barnavelt (1980) ii. vi. 30 Body 'a me, how their feare out stincks their garlick.
1658 J. Eliot Poems 72 But that her mouth each minute shall afford Base Excrements, that shall out stink a Turd.
1723 E. Ward Nuptial Dialogues & Deb. xviii. 163 Your Mouth, by drinking at this odious Rate, Out stinks a Brandy-Shop at Billinsgate.
1769 I. Bickerstaff Captive II. iv. 18 Cadi. Ferdinand in disguise!—Now I begin to smell a rat. Ferd. And I another that outstinks it.
1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 74 In Borrowdale there is a well which, I dare be sworn, will out-stink Leamington water.
1827 R. Southey Let. 21 Feb. in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) V. 288 Holland is to me a very interesting country. Except Amsterdam, which outstinks Lisbon, I like every thing in it.
1964 J. Thompson Pop. 1280 (1990) 169 Sam, how come folks say that you done things that would out-stink a skunk..if it ain't true?
1987 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 3 June e10 The appealing combination of Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman and Elaine May gave us a film that may outstink ‘Heaven's Gate’.
1997 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 11 Mar. c10 (headline) Fund-raising sleaze out-stinks Whitewater.
2. transitive. To overpower or drive out by stench. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > stink of [verb (transitive)] > afflict with stench
astenchc1225
bestench1568
bestink1611
to stink to death1625
outstink1655
stench1824
1655 J. Phillips Satyr against Hypocrites 12 Compos'd Pomanders to out-stink the Devil.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 86 African oile..out-stinks, nay drives-away African, or the most rank, serpents.
1664 H. King Madam Gabrina in Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes & Sonets 36 If a Fox cures the Paralyticall, Had'st thou ten Palsies, she'd out-stink them all.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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