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outbrave en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /aʊtˈbɹeɪv/ (UK)

Etymology

From out- + brave.

Meanings

1. To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
2. To surpass or outrival.
   • to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves. , New York Review Books, 2001, p.263
3. To be more brave than.
   • 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:

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