outstrain verb2 •To outdo by straining.The choir and congregation were evidently assembled for a shouting-match; each tuneful throat seemed emulous to outstrain the rest. — 1891 •(literary) To strain or filter outward.Hark, in the organ, the caught Wind, outstraining, Jubilant rise in a soaring prayer! — 1887 formsoutstrained · outstraining · outstrains