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.