outflame

verb

outflame

verb

Etymology From out- + flame.

1

Poetic To burn more brightly than; outshine.

  • The banners outflame the blazing morn, / O'er billows of bayonet, sword, and spear.1864, Frank Moore, Songs of the Soldiers, page 238:
  • It shall outflame the dying flare / Of all worlds, and survive the final glare.1885, Marcus Samuel C. Rickards, Sonnets and Reveries, page 15:

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