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Meaning of deraign | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

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

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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