different between outwell vs outsell

English

Etymology

out- +? well

Verb

outwell (third-person singular simple present outwells, present participle outwelling, simple past and past participle outwelled)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To well outward; to issue forth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 1, p. 9,^[1]

     […] when old father Nilus gins to swell

     With timely pride aboue the Aegyptian vale,

     His fattie waues doe fertile slime outwell,

     And ouerflow each plaine and lowly dale:

   • 1591, Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella, London: Thomas Newman, “Somewhat to reade for them that list,”^[2]

     […] Religion that rebuketh prophane lamentation, drinkes in the riuers of those dispaireful teares, which languorous ruth hath outwelled […]

English

Etymology

out- +? sell

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?s?l/

Verb

outsell (third-person singular simple present outsells, present participle outselling, simple past and past participle outsold)

1. (transitive) To sell more than; to surpass in sales.
2. (transitive) To sell at a higher price (than)

Translations

References

• outsell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• outsell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• sell out, sell-out, sellout