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outrave

outrave verb: to surpass in raving.

Verb

outrave (third-person singular simple present outraves, present participle outraving, simple past and past participle outraved)

  1. (transitive) 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

Forms of outrave

third-person singular presentoutraves
present participleoutraving
past participleoutraved
pastoutraved

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.

Words near outrave in the dictionary

  1. outrate
  2. outrated
  3. outrates
  4. outrating
  5. outraught
  6. outrave
  7. outraved
  8. outraves
  9. outraving
  10. outray
  11. outrayed

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