outbraveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈbɹeɪv/

動詞

outbrave ‎(三人称単数 現在形 outbraves, 現在分詞 outbraving, 過去形および過去分詞形 outbraved)

1. To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
2. To surpass or outrival.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review Books, 2001, p.263:

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

3. To be more brave than.
   • 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 […]