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outbraved

outbraved is the simple past and past participle of outbrave.

Meaning of outbrave

Verb

outbrave (third-person singular simple present outbraves, present participle outbraving, simple past and past participle outbraved)

  1. To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
  2. To surpass or outrival.
    • to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves., New York Review Books, 2001, p.263
  3. To be more brave than.
    • There, like one possessed,
      Outraving and outbraving all the rest,
      One Lycabas, from Tuscan city sent
      To purge a deed of blood by banishment,
      As I withstood him, struck a breakneck blow,
      And would have dashed me to the waves below […]1954, A. E. Watts, Metamorphoses, page 67

Questions about outbraved

What is outbraved the simple past and past participle of?
Outbraved is the simple past and past participle of outbrave.

Words near outbraved in the dictionary

  1. outbranched
  2. outbranches
  3. outbranching
  4. outbranchings
  5. outbrave
  6. outbraved
  7. outbraves
  8. outbraving
  9. outbrawl
  10. outbrawled
  11. outbrawling

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