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单词 outbrave
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outbravev.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈbreɪv/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈbreɪv/
Forms: see out- prefix and brave v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, brave v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + brave v. Compare to brave out at brave v. 6, to brave it out at brave v. 7.
1. transitive. To face with a show of defiance; to stand out against bravely or defiantly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > defy
stout1303
defy1377
beard1476
brave1546
brag1551
outface1574
to hold (a person) waga1578
dare1580
outbrave1589
bedarea1596
maugre1597
championa1616
to bid defiance to1632
stem1675
bravadea1698
bravo1732
1589 T. Nashe To Students in R. Greene Menaphon Epist. sig. ** Who..think to outbraue better pens with the swelling bumbast of a bragging blanke verse.
1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre v. 200 Let him therefore only outbraue danger, not wooe it.
1684 B. Keach Progress of Sin iii. 58 The King of Darkness the first Onset gave; Thinking his Foe to startle or outbrave.
1727 D. Hume Let. 4 July (1932) I. 10 For the perfectly Wise man that outbraves Fortune is surely greater than the Husbandman who slips by her.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 20 Instead of guarding against the inclemency of the weather, they outbrave it.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. xii. 326 The Duke sat outfacing his accusers, and outbraving their accusations.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 325 Fiery shadows, hence! I have outbraved ye once.
1931 T. S. Moore Danae in Poems 213 Has he given His oracle, yet, still out-braving heaven, Standeth thy coward boast of hollow brass? Oh vanity of vanities, alas!
1956 Amer. Lit. 28 305 She courageously outbraves her reproachful tormentor with a vow that she will not fear to face him before the Judgment Seat.
2.
a. transitive. To outrival or surpass (in any quality); to outlive or outlast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)]
overstyeOE
overshinec1175
overgoc1225
passc1225
surmountc1369
forpassc1374
overmatcha1375
overpassa1382
to pass overa1393
overcomec1400
outpass?a1425
exceedc1425
precedec1425
superexcelc1429
transcendc1430
precel?a1439
outcut1447
overgrowc1475
to come over ——a1479
excel1493
overleapa1500
vanquish1533
outweigh1534
prevent1540
better1548
preferc1550
outgo1553
surpassa1555
exsuperate1559
cote1566
overtop1567
outrun1575
outstrip1579
outsail1580
overruna1586
pre-excel1587
outbid1589
outbrave1589
out-cote1589
top1590
outmatch1593
outvie1594
superate1595
surbravec1600
oversile1608
over-height1611
overstride1614
outdoa1616
outlustrea1616
outpeera1616
outstrikea1616
outrival1622
antecede1624
out-top1624
antecell1625
out-pitch1627
over-merit1629
outblazea1634
surmatch1636
overdoa1640
overact1643
outact1644
worst1646
overspana1657
outsoar1674
outdazzle1691
to cut down1713
ding1724
to cut out1738
cap1821
by-pass1848
overtower1850
pretergress1851
outray1876
outreach1879
cut1884
outperform1937
outrate1955
one-up1963
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxx. 134 My husband, though by trade a Smith, for birth out-brau'd of none.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxii. 48 Liuells, a large Waste, which other plaines out-braues.
1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 122 So small a pittance you of learning have, Their worst of Playes doth all your works outbrave.
1750 T. Carte Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 310 He affected every where..to out-brave them on all publick occasions.
1796 W. H. Marshall Planting I. 145 The North aspect of bleak and barren heights is the only situation in which it [sc. the Scotch fir] ought to be tolerated: and even there, the Larch is found to outbrave it.
1820 J. H. Wiffen Julia Alpinula xxxviii. 74 (note) An indestructible principle, outbraving the eloquent epitaphs of man, and surviving the wreck of his most splendid monuments.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Ootvie, or Ootbrave, to surpass; to persevere the longest.
1935 W. Plomer Fivefold Screen 47 And yet the triumph of decay Outbraves pride of bouncing fools.
a1953 J. K. Baxter To my Wife in Coll. Poems (1980) ii Our love outbraves the gloom Of sin, death, change, and the rough hand of chance.
b. transitive. To outdo or excel in beauty or attire. Cf. bravery n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > splendour > excel in splendour [verb (transitive)]
outbrave1589
out-brag1609
outglittera1623
outbloom1726
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G2 Cupide dismounted from his mothers lappe..to outbraue the Thessalian dames in their beautie.
1597 J. Gerard Herball To Rdr. sig. C2v The Lillies of the field outbraued him.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Norw. 274 Solomon himself is out-braved therewith [sc.with a flower].
1707 N. Tate Injur'd Love ii. 23 Her Room Out-brav'd the Stars with sundry kinds of Lights.
1785 T. Dwight Conquest of Canäan v. 113 O'er flowery beauties plumes of triumph waves; Imbibes their fragrance, and their charms out-braves.
1861 W. H. Dixon Personal Hist. Ld. Bacon vii. §21 The prodigal bridegroom,..clad in a suit of Genoese velvet, purple from cap to shoe, outbraves them all.
1894 A. C. Swinburne Astrophel 65 The lustrous foliage..Outbraves the pride of June With statelier semblance.
1952 Social Forces 30 447/1 Who does not outsparkle and outbrave the rival will be left on the shelf, and the shelf is large when there are many more women than men.
3. transitive. To outdo or surpass in bravery or daring.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > courage > bravery or boldness > act bravely [verb] > to surpass in bravery
outbrave1600
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. i. 28 I would..Out-braue the hart most daring on the earth..To win the Lady. View more context for this quotation
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion v. 82 That those proud Airies,..Out-braue not this our kind in mettle.
1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 33 58 The lesser being very revengeful, and naturally full of Courage, did outbrave even Mars himself in assaulting their Enemy.
1732 J. Mitchell Poems Several Occasions II. 297 Declares the Man out-brav'd by no Man, Who beds a lusty, rampant, Woman.
1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. xiv. 1009 Outnumber'd, not outbrav'd, they still oppose Despair to daring, and a front to foes.
1880 Harper's Mag. Oct. 741/1 Indeed he was not to be outbraved by a couple of women. When we got to Kyle Akin, the dusk beginning to creep over land and sea, he showed no signs of running in there for shelter.
1918 H. E. Fosdick Challenge of Present Crisis iii. 45 They [sc. Quaker volunteers] have outbraved the brave in deeds of mercy on the battlefield.
1992 A. C. Richard Hispanic Image on Silver Screen 117 A few West Point cadets try to outbrave each other in the dangerous wilds of an unspecified South America jungle.

Derivatives

outˈbraved adj. rare
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > defiant > defied
outdared1597
defied1816
outbraved1870
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 129 Suffice it, that no outbraved death Might end him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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