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outbrays

outbrays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outbray.

Meaning of outbray

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.

Questions about outbrays

What is outbrays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outbrays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outbray.

Words near outbrays in the dictionary

  1. outbrawling
  2. outbrawls
  3. outbray
  4. outbrayed
  5. outbraying
  6. outbrays
  7. outbrazen
  8. outbrazened
  9. outbrazening
  10. outbrazens
  11. outbreak

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