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outraving

outraving is the present participle and gerund of outrave.

Meaning of outrave

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

Questions about outraving

What is outraving the present participle and gerund of?
Outraving is the present participle and gerund of outrave.

Words near outraving in the dictionary

  1. outrating
  2. outraught
  3. outrave
  4. outraved
  5. outraves
  6. outraving
  7. outray
  8. outrayed
  9. outraying
  10. outrays
  11. outre

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