Definitions

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outfling.
  • adjective Flung outwards.

Etymologies

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See outfling (verb)

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out- +‎ flung

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Examples

  • The Dragonspawn stood with hands outflung, eyes gushing wrath on Garm.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • It is that maelstrom that gives our galaxy its spiraling, dervishly outflung arms.

    Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song' Coleman Barks 2010

  • The Dragonspawn stood with hands outflung, eyes gushing wrath on Garm.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • The Dragonspawn stood with hands outflung, eyes gushing wrath on Garm.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • It is that maelstrom that gives our galaxy its spiraling, dervishly outflung arms.

    Coleman Barks: Rumi's Poetry: 'All Religions, All This Singing, One Song' Coleman Barks 2010

  • The Dragonspawn stood with hands outflung, eyes gushing wrath on Garm.

    GuildWars Edge of Destiny J. Robert King 2011

  • William rolled limply onto his back, his outflung hand catching and parting the sumptuous velvet curtains that they had been standing in front of earlier, when she had first told him that the engagement was off.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • He sat his saddle as stiffly as a statue carved from dark vehrwood, and he did not look down at the dead, but every time his charger came near to stepping on one of their outflung hands or the hems of their clothes, the knight nudged the horse aside.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • Rose lay breathless on the cold stones as her excitement waned, with her bruised limbs outflung and gleaming in the moonlight.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • William rolled limply onto his back, his outflung hand catching and parting the sumptuous velvet curtains that they had been standing in front of earlier, when she had first told him that the engagement was off.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

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