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OUTFIGHT
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Irregular inflected form: outfought
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they outfight ... he / she / it outfights
Past simple: outfought
Past participle: outfought
-ing form: outfighting
Sense 1
Meaning:
To fight better than; get the better of
Example:
The French forces outfought the Germans
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "outfight" is one way to...):
beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The fighter managed to outfight his opponent
