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outbragging

outbragging is the present participle and gerund of outbrag.

Meaning of outbrag

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

Questions about outbragging

What is outbragging the present participle and gerund of?
Outbragging is the present participle and gerund of outbrag.

Words near outbragging in the dictionary

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

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