Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To prove greater or better than; surpass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surpass as rival; be more than a match for; vie successfully with; outdo; overmatch.
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- verb transitive to
surpass or bebetter than something or someone else
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be or do something to a greater degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity.
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Can "Avatar" outmatch "Titanic" at the box office, or do you think the ship will sink?
‘Avatar’ And ‘Titanic’ By The Numbers: Will Records Be Broken? » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Turkey's trade with the Gulf, with Russia, with its newly befriended neighbors simply outmatch the financial benefits of the strictly U.S.
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Turkey's trade with the Gulf, with Russia, with its newly befriended neighbors simply outmatch the financial benefits of the strictly U.S.
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Aviaries with raucous jungle parrots outmatch the mariachis in volume and plumage.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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As narratives, these poems outmatch much of the recent crop of "flash fiction" currently in vogue on the prose side of the literary aisle.
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It seems possible that the upper atmospheres of the gas giants have too much ionization, so the processes that break up large molecules outmatch the processes that create them.
Could there be Life on Jupiter and Saturn's Moons? | Universe Today 2009
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Can the future visions of the Kwitatz Haderach outmatch the Visualization of the Cosmic All of the Second Stage Lensmen?
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It's the same reason U.S. airlines shy away from adding service in rival airline's fortress hubs -- the bigger incumbent can outmatch you in flights and fares to protect its markets, and likely has many business travelers locked into frequent flier programs and corporate contracts.
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They said he couldn't build the political organization to outmatch the likes of opponents who had been building their organizations for years.
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