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outrave en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + rave.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To surpass in raving.
   • 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:
   • In rant it outraved what Lee himself was to achieve. 2013, Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780), page 59:

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