Meanings
present singular third person outbrags · participle present outbragging · participle past outbragged · past outbragged
- transitiveTo surpass in bragging.
- obsoletetransitiveTo surpass in beauty or splendor.
Like vnſhorne veluet, on that termleſſe ſkin Whoſe bare out-brag'd the web it ſeem'd to were.
1609, William Shakespeare, “A Louers Complaint”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
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