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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of outgeneral.
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Examples
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Against the Sovs, we would have been outnumbered, outgunned, outfought, and outgeneraled.
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“Against the Sovs, we would have been outnumbered, outgunned, outfought, and outgeneraled.”
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The Romans outgeneraled Crixus: they took him by surprise.
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Lieutenant Colonel William R. Carter of the 3rd Virginia stated later, “This was quite a successful affair & particularly gratifying, as the braggart Kilpatrick was completely outgeneraled and badly defeated.”
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(He perhaps could not forgive one of the two men to have outgeneraled him in the field, the other being Kemal Atatürk.)
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But they were good men and ably served by good centurions, those veteran Roman legions Pompey led; they fought back bravely, though their mouths gaped from lack of water and a terrible dismay had filled their hearts because someone had outgeneraled their lovely young man, and they hadn't thought there was anyone alive could do that.
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Outnumbered and outgeneraled, Varinius had no choice other than to retreat, though he left his beautifully caparisoned Public Horse behind along with most of his soldiers.
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If a man wished to examine each feature in detail, he might show the renowned Pompey to have been a child, so completely was he outgeneraled at every point.
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With this remark, Eveline at once turned to her book and commenced reading again, as much as to say: -- "Have the conversation all to yourself, then!" and the miscreant so understood and interpreted the act, and felt that he was outgeneraled by the superior tactics of his opponent, notwithstanding the immense advantage he was master of in the contest.
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The rebel sympathizers here acknowledge that Bragg has been outgeneraled.
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