outrave

English

Etymology

out- +‎ rave

Verb

outrave (third-person singular simple present outraves, present participle outraving, simple past and past participle outraved)

1. (transitive) To surpass in raving.
   • 1954, A. E. Watts, Metamorphoses, page 67:

     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 […]

   • 2013, Edmund Gosse, A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660-1780), page 59:

     In rant it outraved what Lee himself was to achieve.