outblow

From Middle English outblowen, ut-blawen, equivalent to out- +‎ blow.

outblow (third-person singular simple present outblows, present participle outblowing, simple past outblew, past participle outblown)

1. (transitive) To blow out (all senses)
   • 1868, Sabine Baring Gould, The silver store, page 28:

     Suddenly a gust
     The lamp outblew.

From out- +‎ blow.

outblow (third-person singular simple present outblows, present participle outblowing, simple past outblew, past participle outblown)

1. (transitive) To exceed in blowing; blow more or better than (all senses)
   • 1899, The Blue and Gold - Volume 26, page 241:

     “I never let a man outblow me,” he says, “if he'll tell his story first, I'll beat it.”

   • 2009, Dave Oliphant, Harbingers of Books to Come: A Texan's Literary Life, page 130:

     Both black bands bopped and jived and outblew our own more traditional unit, which, instead of playing swinging music, specialized in precision drills and marching down the field six regimented steps from one yard line to the next, as described in my poem entitled "Cadences."

• blow out, blow-out, blowout, bowl out, bowl-out, outbowl