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UPBRAID
Definition of UPBRAID
verb
To criticize severely.
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Other senses
UPBRAID carries 4 further meanings.
transitive verb
To reprove sharply; reproach. synonym: scold.
To reproach for some fault or offense; charge reproachfully; reproach: regularly followed by with or for (rarely of) before the thing imputed.
To offer as an accusation or charge against some person or thing: with to before the person or thing blamed.
Specifically, to reprove with severity; chide.
Where it comes from
From Middle English upbreiden, from Old English upbreġdan, equivalent to up- + braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Old English
- Middle English
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
7th
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
3.7%
of traced words share this origin (3,168)
branch · 22.6% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, UPBRAID · 5 relatives in the game
Its etymology also names Icelandic.
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
UPBRAID in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 45 boards so far. 83 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 176, 12 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 28, 17 June 2026.
Built from these letters
UPBRAID starts with U and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ABDIPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that mean much the same
Near-synonyms of UPBRAID. Not interchangeable at the board - the grid decides that - but close in meaning.
Words that start UPBRAI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 28
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