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upbray

upbray verb: to upbraid.

Verb

upbray (third-person singular simple present upbrays, present participle upbraying, simple past and past participle upbrayed)

  1. (obsolete) To upbraid.
    • He wexed wondrous wroth, and said, Vile knight, / That knights & knighthood doest with shame vpbray […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of upbray

third-person singular presentupbrays
present participleupbraying
past participleupbrayed
pastupbrayed

Origin of upbray

Back-formation from upbrayd, obsolete past participle of upbraid.

Questions about upbray

What does upbray mean?
Upbray means to upbraid.
What part of speech is upbray?
Upbray is a verb.
What is the past tense of upbray?
The past tense of upbray is upbrayed.

Words near upbray in the dictionary

  1. upbraideth
  2. upbraiding
  3. upbraidingly
  4. upbraidings
  5. upbraids
  6. upbray
  7. upbrayed
  8. upbraying
  9. upbrays
  10. upbreak
  11. upbreaking

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