outrave
outrave verb: to surpass in raving.
Verb
outrave (third-person singular simple present outraves, present participle outraving, simple past and past participle outraved)
- To surpass in raving.
- 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 - In rant it outraved what Lee himself was to achieve.2013, Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780), page 59
- There, like one possessed,
Forms of outrave
| third-person singular present | outraves |
|---|---|
| present participle | outraving |
| past participle | outraved |
| past | outraved |
Origin of outrave
From out- + rave.
Questions about outrave
- What does outrave mean?
- Outrave means to surpass in raving.
- What part of speech is outrave?
- Outrave is a verb.
- What is the past tense of outrave?
- The past tense of outrave is outraved.
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