outbray en · VERB
Etymology
From out- + bray.
Meanings
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(transitive) To exceed in braying.
[…] could outbray a donkey.
1972, Frances Marion, Off with Their Heads: A Serio-comic Tale of Hollywood (paeg 195)
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(obsolete, transitive) To exhale; outbreathe.
The ſnake (that on his creſt hot fire out braid, […]
1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Tenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 179:
- (obsolete, transitive) To emit with great noise; bray out.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| outbraying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| outbrayed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| outbrayed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| outbrays | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |