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outmaster

verb

To overcome; to win or prevail in a competition.

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Meanings

verboutmaster (third-person singular simple present outmasters, present participle outmastering, simple past and past participle outmastered)

present singular third person outmasters · participle present outmastering · participle past outmastered · past outmastered

To overcome; to win or prevail in a competition.
Don't try to outmaster the master.
2000, Catherine Coulter, Jade Star, →ISBN, page 204
3 more examples
Pleas'd with the guilt, yet envy-stung at heart To stand outmaster'd in his own black art!
1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge - Volume 2, page 81
He would outmaster, outflank, the mystery of iniquity by the mystery of godliness.
1894, Henry Scott Holland, God's City and the Coming of the Kingdom, page 151
The great, hulking brute rubbed his jaw and lunged at Keel, but years of the finest royal training only made it easy for the angry merprince to outmaster the human.
2015, Jenni James, The Little Mermaid: Faerie Tale Collection, →ISBN

Origin

From out- + master.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with outmaster

master faster disaster pastor blaster plaster raster castor caster aster alabaster headmaster remaster cadastre laster cotoneaster paster gaster cremaster alastor Kaster piastre Jaster pinaster

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APA

outmaster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outmaster

MLA

“outmaster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outmaster. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outmaster,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outmaster.

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