Outrave

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To surpass in raving. transitive

    "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 […]"

Example

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"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 […]"

Etymology

From out- + rave.

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