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outbrazen

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ brazen.

Verb

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outbrazen (third-person singular simple present outbrazens, present participle outbrazening, simple past and past participle outbrazened)

  1. (transitive) To bear down with a brazen face.
  2. (transitive) To surpass in impudence.
    • 1702, Tom Brown, Letters from the Dead to the Living:
      see their impudence outbrazen'd by a club of mortal puritans

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for outbrazen”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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