6come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
- We beat the competition
- Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Synonymsbeat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish,
Hyponymscheat, checkmate, cream, eliminate, get the best, get the jump, immobilize, outdo, outfight, outplay, outpoint, overcome, overpower, spread-eagle, surpass, walk over, whomp, worst,
Hypernymsget the better of,
Entailmentswin,
Type ofdefeated, got the better of, overcame,
Typesbatted, bested, cheated, checkmated, chicaned, choused, clobbered, drubbed, eliminated, exceeded, got the jump, immobilised, immobilized, jockeyed, licked, mated, mopped up, outdid, outflanked, outfought, outmatched, outperformed, outplayed, outpointed, outscored, outstripped, outwent, overmastered, overpowered, overwhelmed, pipped, racked up, routed, scooped, screwed, shafted, spreadeagled, spread-eagled, surmounted, surpassed, thrashed, trumped, walked over, whipped, whomped, worsted,