1845 Dublin Rev. June 314 ‘God strike you, Satan’ was the Reformer's outroar.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. ii. 28 As it were, the towering wood-work of the cathedral organ in quake under emission of its multitudinous outroar.

1955 V. 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.

1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. (Review section) 6 Imagine the outroar if Meese had taken money from a business with a pending antitrust case before the Justice Department.

1996 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 7 May 32 Tax columnist Steve Ranot said he's miffed by the outroar that the rich are getting the biggest breaks.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 128 O that I were Vpon the hill of Basan to out-roare The horned Heard. View more context for this quotation

1640 ‘Ben-Arod Gad’ Wandering-Jew 51 Lions roare, and yet at one time or other are out-roar'd.

1679 S. Woodford Voy. in Paraphrase upon Canticles 168 A Sea no less dangerous rag'd within, Than that which strove abroad the Tempest to outroar.

1753 A. Hill Rom. Revenge ii. v. 39 Never, henceforth, let Noise be call'd Sedition: Rome's public Mouth outroars a hundred Senates!

1795 T. Morton Zorinski ii. i. 32 Did reason use Jove's thunder, 'twould be outroared by the clamorous people.

1814 Gonzanga iv. vi, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre III. 140 Let..the falling rocks Dash'd on the troubled ocean far outroar The warring elements!

1867 Felton's Greece, Anc. & Mod. I. 98 A thrust that makes him outroar nine thousand troopers.

1871 A. C. Swinburne Songs before Sunrise 5 Outroar the lion-throated seas, Outchide the north-wind if it chid.

1986 P. Mora Borders 51 How loud they are our silent hugs outroar the airport's blare.