Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To render inaudible by greater loudness of voice; be more clamorous or noisy than.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To exceed in noise.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To exceed in noise.

Etymologies

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out- +‎ voice

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Examples

  • The majority is not allowed to outvoice the minority because by the end of the process the community has trimmed down the number of voices to two equal voices for the purpose of assessing the logic of each argument.

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