outflame

English

Etymology

out- +‎ flame

Verb

outflame (third-person singular simple present outflames, present participle outflaming, simple past and past participle outflamed)

  1. (transitive, poetic) To burn more brightly than; outshine.
    • 1864, Frank Moore, Songs of the Soldiers, page 238:
      The banners outflame the blazing morn, / O'er billows of bayonet, sword, and spear.
    • 1885, Marcus Samuel C. Rickards, Sonnets and Reveries, page 15:
      It shall outflame the dying flare / Of all worlds, and survive the final glare.
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