outgun

present singular third person outguns · participle present outgunning · participle past outgunned · past outgunned · alternative out-gun

1. transitiveTo defeat in terms of firepower.

   "Boarding is our only chance here. We are too heavily outgunned."

   1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood

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   Two can play at destructive industrialism, and now we out-gun you. We are piling up munitions now faster than you.

   1917, H.G. Wells, War and the Future

   There is no sporting purpose on earth that should stop the United States Congress from banishing assault weapons that outgun police and cut down children.

   1994, Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address