单词 | outdraw |
释义 | outdrawv. 1. transitive. To pull or draw out; to extract, unsheath, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by force, effort, or contrivance to draw outOE outdrawlOE drawc1300 win out1362 out-wina1425 windc1535 extract1628 exact1647 exforcipatea1834 to winkle out1942 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1083 Hi ferdon æfter heom into þam mynstre, & woldon hig utdragan., þaða hig ne dorsten na utgan. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 3757 Þat sweord a ðene scelde bat..& þat sweord stike feste..ne mihte he þat sweord ut draȝen. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2632 (MED) Willam wendut his swerd vt-drow. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 3719 And he anon the teth outdrouh. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xxi. 8 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 153 (MED) Þou ert whilke þat me outdroghe [L. extraxisti] Fra þe wambe. ?a1425 (?a1350) T. Castleford Chron. (1996) I. l. 908 Anoclet sagh hym was full wa, The swerd outdrawyn hym for to scla. a1450 in R. Morris Legends Holy Rood (1871) 218 (MED) Hys dere blood was oute-drawe To helpe us to hys heuenes holde. 1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vi. sig. R.ij A gastly Gripe, that euermore his growing guttes outdrawes. 1581 J. Heywood tr. Seneca Thyestes (new ed.) iv, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 32 From bosomes yet aliue out drawne the trembling bowels shake, The vaynes yet breath, the feareful hart doth yet both pant and quake. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xv. 263 The vertue of the Plaister expels and outdraweth all humors. a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 155 Damns the most to hell, By Divelish Arts and Witcheries out draws More than three thousand that espouse his Cause. 1884 A. T. de Vere Industry in Poet. Wks. V. 359 Young maid that bend'st above thy wheel So pure, so meek, so simple, The wool out-drawing as the smile Developes from the dimple. 1908 W. Meynell Sel. Poems F. Thompson Pref. p. x The parallel might..be further outdrawn. 2. transitive. To surpass (another attraction, etc.) in drawing an audience; to attract a larger crowd than. ΚΠ 1890 N.Y. Times 20 Apr. 3/1 They say..that they will continue to out-draw the old organization. 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Oct. 8/6 (heading) Rice..says baseball's longer season outdraws football. 1975 G. Howell In Vogue 65/2 Sound came in 1927, and by the end of 1928 the worst sound film could outdraw the best silent movie. 1993 R. Limbaugh See, I told you So i. 2 Within months, despite the unanimous prediction of failure, the program was outdrawing both David Letterman's and Arsenio Hall's shows. 3. transitive. To draw a weapon, esp. a gun, faster than (an adversary). ΚΠ 1978 A. Rakoff in W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet (BBC ed.) Introd. 25 Tybalt is the Jack Palance character in a cowboy movie, he can outdraw anybody, but Mercutio thinks he's as good. 1985 J. Tuska Amer. West in Film x. 160 Slade is on his way to find out if he can outdraw the Kid. 1998 J. Barnes England, England (1999) 58 He also, at such moments, compared himself to a gunslinger, turning to outdraw the next uppity young pup on the block. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.lOE |
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