beat (v)
beat out (v)
crush (v)
shell#3 (v)
trounce (v)
vanquish (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 33
def come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
examples Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
We beat the competition
Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 9 Somebody ----s somebody
Frame - 10 Something ----s somebody
Outgoing links
Entailment win
Hypernym get the better of, overcome, defeat
Derivationally related form vanquish → vanquishable; vanquish → vanquisher
Derivationally related form trounce → trouncing
Derivationally related form beat → beatable; beat → beating
Hyponym outpoint, outscore; walk over; eliminate; worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up; whomp; get the best, have the best, overcome; spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout; get the jump; cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey; surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform; overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master; outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop; outfight; overpower, overmaster, overwhelm; checkmate, mate; immobilize, immobilise; outplay; cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
Verb Group outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
Incoming links
Derivationally related form vanquishable → vanquish; vanquisher → vanquish
Derivationally related form beatable → beat; beating → beat
Derivationally related form trouncing → trounce
Hypernym outpoint, outscore; walk over; eliminate; worst, pip, mop up, whip, rack up; whomp; get the best, have the best, overcome; spread-eagle, spreadeagle, rout; get the jump; cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey; surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform; overcome, get over, subdue, surmount, master; outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop; outfight; overpower, overmaster, overwhelm; checkmate, mate; immobilize, immobilise; outplay; cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick
Verb Group outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent
Hyponym get the better of, overcome, defeat

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