Verb
To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPolitics 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