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Meaning of deraign | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To prove or refute, especially through combat.
    obsolete, transitive
  2. To engage in battle or combat.
    ambitransitive, obsolete
  3. To determine or decide by combat; to fight out.
    obsolete, transitive
  4. To ready or prepare for combat.
    obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, / Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, / And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy [...].”
“Now everything I had or sought, I've lost; / Upon a glimpse, I am disparadised. / So: go defiant to the nether world, / And darreign^([sic]) Lucifer's dread minions to / Worse torment than thou wouldst do thyself.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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