outrave
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[edit]outrave (third-person singular simple present outraves, present participle outraving, simple past and past participle outraved)
- (transitive) To surpass in raving.
- 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 […]
- 2013, Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780), page 59:
- In rant it outraved what Lee himself was to achieve.