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third-person singular simple present outbraves, present participle outbraving, simple past and past participle outbraved
To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously. examples
To surpass or outrival. quotations examples
to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps
To be more brave than. quotations examples
There, like one possessed,Outraving and outbraving all the rest,One Lycabas, from Tuscan city sentTo 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