VERB
  1. be braver than
  2. resist bravely
    He outbraved the enemy
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How To Use outbrave In A Sentence

  • I felt much moved that Will had faced his fears and outbraved them to come to help me, but this seemed no time for long speeches. Wicked Will
  • The pirates called a council, and decided to give them the slip, having "outbraved them," and done as much as honour called for. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
  • 'I see,' said the genie, 'that you both outbrave me, but both of you shall know, by the treatment I give you, what I am capable of doing.' Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
  • A man, or a woman for that matter, should have the courage to outbrave an oath when it hurts the innocent. Hetty Wesley
  • Methinks there should be that magnanimity in every Christian, that he should scorn to be outbraved by any, in point of spiritual fortitude; and to make that noble resolution that Nehemiah did, in chap. vi. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
  • But Jed was bound to outbrave me, and I was equally bound to outbrave him. Chapter 13
  • Nor was the government only, but also the glory of the English nation changed; distinction of orders confounded, the gentry outbraved, and the nobility, who voted the bishops out of their dignities in parliament, by the just judgment of God thrust out themselves, and brought under the scorn and imperious lash of a beggar on horseback; Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • For some time she endeavoured to outbrave me; neither the fiddler nor she desisted; but at last she gave over, and the musician laid aside his instrument. . . A Renegade History of the United States
  • For some time she endeavoured to outbrave me; neither the fiddler nor she desisted; but at last she gave over, and the musician laid aside his instrument. . . A Renegade History of the United States
  • Only shame to be outbraved by his younger companion and pupil made him nod and mutter his assent. Black Jack
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