outdo

Verb

Meaning

To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

outperform trump best exceed surpass scoop surmount outstrip outflank outgo outrival outmatch crown shellac excel
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Antonyms

chase ramble approach course dog hound
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Hypernyms

beat shell crush vanquish trounce beat out

Hyponyms

better break beat shame outcry circumvent

Phrases with the word

to outdo

Derivatives

outdid outdone outdoing

Examples

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. Paul Weyrich

Gorbachevism, carried out by mediocre but ambitious party bureaucrats, is an attempt not only to outdo the people but also the objective laws of human society. Aleksandr Zinovyev

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. Frank B. Kellogg

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. S. I. Hayakawa

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes. J. Irwin Miller

Fools gawp at masterpieces - wise men set out to outdo masterpieces. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

outdin outdirect outdistance outdodge outdoer outdoing