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outman
verb[ T, usually passive ]
uk /ˌaʊtˈmæn/ us /ˌaʊtˈmæn/-nn-
to have more people or better people than another group, team, army, etc.:
Outmanned and outgunned, the three eventually surrendered to police.
This is a team that has been outmanned almost every game this year.
We were outgunned, outmanned and cut off from our extraction point.
The protests deteriorated into clouds of tear gas unleashed by outmanned riot officers.
The truth is the bad guys are outmanning the police department badly in the city.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Surpassing in quality or number
catch
catch (someone) up
compare
crown
crush
do something for an encoreidiom
eclipse
encore
outcompete
outdo
outflank
outgo
outmuscle
put/leave someone in the shadeidiom
shade
shame
steal a march on someoneidiom
steal someone's thunderidiom
surpass
tower
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