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outbrag

outbrag verb: to surpass in bragging.

Verb

outbrag (third-person singular simple present outbrags, present participle outbragging, simple past and past participle outbragged)

  1. (transitive) To surpass in bragging.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To surpass in beauty or splendor.
    • Like vnſhorne veluet, on that termleſſe ſkin
      Whoſe bare out-brag'd the web it ſeem'd to were.1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

Forms of outbrag

third-person singular presentoutbrags
present participleoutbragging
past participleoutbragged
pastoutbragged

Origin of outbrag

From out- + brag.

Questions about outbrag

What does outbrag mean?
Outbrag means to surpass in bragging.
What part of speech is outbrag?
Outbrag is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbrag?
The past tense of outbrag is outbragged.

Words near outbrag in the dictionary

  1. outbows
  2. outbox
  3. outboxed
  4. outboxes
  5. outboxing
  6. outbrag
  7. outbragged
  8. outbragging
  9. outbrags
  10. outbrain
  11. outbrained

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