outbrave

present singular third person outbraves · participle present outbraving · participle past outbraved · past outbraved

1. To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
2. To surpass or outrival.

   to outbrave one another, they will tire their bodies, macerate their souls, and through contentions or mutual invitations beggar themselves.

   1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 263

3. To be more brave than.

   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 […]

   1954, A. E. Watts, Metamorphoses, page 67