outbrave

English edit

Etymology edit

From out- +‎ brave.

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈbɹeɪv/

Verb edit

outbrave (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.
To surpass or outrival.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
  , New York Review Books, 2001, p.263:
  to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves.
To be more brave than.
- 1954, A. E. Watts, Metamorphoses, page 67:
  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 […]

Anagrams edit

brave out