outbrave

From out- +‎ brave.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈbɹeɪv/

outbrave (third-person singular simple present outbraves, present participle outbraving, simple past and past participle outbraved)

1. To stand out bravely against; to face up to courageously.
2. To surpass or outrival.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , 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 […]

• brave out