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outbray

outbray verb: to exceed in braying.

Verb

outbray (third-person singular simple present outbrays, present participle outbraying, simple past and past participle outbrayed)

  1. (transitive) To exceed in braying.
    • […] could outbray a donkey.1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
    • The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, […]1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold]...
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To emit with great noise; bray out.

Forms of outbray

third-person singular presentoutbrays
present participleoutbraying
past participleoutbrayed
pastoutbrayed

Origin of outbray

From out- + bray.

Questions about outbray

What does outbray mean?
Outbray means to exceed in braying.
What part of speech is outbray?
Outbray is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbray?
The past tense of outbray is outbrayed.

Words near outbray in the dictionary

  1. outbraving
  2. outbrawl
  3. outbrawled
  4. outbrawling
  5. outbrawls
  6. outbray
  7. outbrayed
  8. outbraying
  9. outbrays
  10. outbrazen
  11. outbrazened

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