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outbrag en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + brag.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To surpass in bragging.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To surpass in beauty or splendor.
    • Like vnſhorne veluet, on that termleſſe ſkin Whoſe bare out-brag'd the web it ſeem'd to were. 1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

Forms

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outbrags Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
outbragging Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outbragged Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
outbragged Tense=Past lexicographic