Meanings
present singular third person outraves · participle present outraving · participle past outraved · past outraved
- transitiveTo surpass in raving.
In rant it outraved what Lee himself was to achieve.
2013, Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780), page 591 more example
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
Origin
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