OUTFIGHT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: outfought

Present simple: I / you / we / they outfight ... he / she / it outfights

Past simple: outfought

Past participle: outfought

-ing form: outfighting

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