Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To surpass in military force.
- transitive verb To overwhelm or defeat.
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- verb transitive to be more heavily
armed than, to have morefirepower than
Etymologies
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Examples
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O'Malley said he did not start to feel better about the race until after his campaign had begun to "outgun" Ehrlich in the TV ad war and the two rivals finished their last debate last month.
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O'Malley said he did not start to feel better about the race until after his campaign had begun to "outgun" Ehrlich in the TV ad war and the two rivals finished their last debate last month.
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It is unhealthy and imbalanced when the Pentagon can outgun the National Security Council with its strategists, its intelligence capacity, its fleet of cars and jets, and its resources in what often looks like a competition between the White House and DoD.
Steve Clemons: Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps
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Airlines these days are more inclined to cancel flights at the hint of a major storm than to try and outgun Mother Nature.
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It is unhealthy and imbalanced when the Pentagon can outgun the National Security Council with its strategists, its intelligence capacity, its fleet of cars and jets, and its resources in what often looks like a competition between the White House and DoD.
Steve Clemons: Tom Donilon: The Last Best Hope to Help Obama Make Vital Strategic Leaps
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Whatever the cause, we are developing a permanent Hispanic inner city dependent and crime ridden population, where your property rights are a joke unless you outgun them (you can probably out-shoot them, but there are lots of them), and even your right to life is subject to the whim of some gang banger.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » When Conservatives Turn Against Private Property and Private Contracts
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Mr. Calderón also made an impassioned plea to the U.S. to cut down its drug consumption as well as sales of high-powered weapons that end up in Mexico and allow criminals here to outgun authorities.
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Embarking on a cross-country crime spree with Clyde's brother, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons), Clyde is hailed as a Depression-era hero, but the gang's days are numbered as they try to outrun and outgun the coppers.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
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Is it just us, or did George Lopez totally outgun Conan O'Brien, guest-list-wise, for Conan's first week taking Lopez's timeslot on TBS?
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Embarking on a cross-country crime spree with Clyde's brother, Buck (Gene Hackman), and his wife, Blanche (Estelle Parsons), Clyde is hailed as a Depression-era hero, but the gang's days are numbered as they try to outrun and outgun the coppers.
John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
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