Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To move outward with a sweeping motion: as, ‘with wings outsweeping.
  • To sweep or rush beyond.

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Examples

  • She must avert her gaze from him for a moment or the tides that he was lashing about her would lift and carry her on their outsweep.

    A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

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