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outrays

outrays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outray.

Meaning of outray

Verb

outray (third-person singular simple present outrays, present participle outraying, simple past and past participle outrayed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To spread out in array.
    • And now they outray to your fleet.[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To outshine.
    • Cerberus doth barke,
      Whom Theseus dyd affraye,
      Whom Hercules dyd outraye,
      As famous poetes say; […]c. 1505, John Skelton, Phyllyp Sparowe; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 74, lines 85–88

Questions about outrays

What is outrays the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outrays is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outray.

Words near outrays in the dictionary

  1. outraves
  2. outraving
  3. outray
  4. outrayed
  5. outraying
  6. outrays
  7. outre
  8. outreach
  9. outreached
  10. outreaches
  11. outreaching

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