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Outfight   Listen
verb
outfight  v. t.  (past & past part. outfought; pres. part. outfighting)  
1.
To exceed in fighting; fight more competently; as, He outfought his challengers; the boxer outfought his opponent for eight rounds but lost the bout in the ninth on a knockout.
2.
To defeat in a battle; as, The French forces outfought the Germans.
Synonyms: get the better of.





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"Outfight" Quotes from Famous Books



... whisky. It happened I had just one bottle in the house, and that was some perfectly terrible whisky that had been sent me by mistake. It was liquid barbed wire. Even a little drink of it would of been severe. Two drinks would make you climb a tree like a monkey. But the stricken Oswald seemed able to outfight it. He poured out half a tumblerful, drunk it neat and refused water. He strangled some, for he was only human after all. Then he sagged down on the couch and looked up at me with a feeble and pathetic grin ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson


Words linked to "Outfight" :   crush, shell, vanquish, trounce, beat, beat out


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