outclassed
past simple and past participle ofoutclass
outclass
verb[T]
uk/ˌaʊtˈklɑːs/us/ˌaʊtˈklæs/to be muchbetterthan someone or something:
The company'slatestmountainbikesoutclass all thecompetition.
Winning and defeating
- annihilate
- annihilation
- bank
- be gunning forsomeoneidiom
- be one in the eye forsomeoneidiom
- convincing
- moral victory
- move/go in for the killidiom
- near thing
- outclass
- outcompete
- sew
- slaughter
- sweep
- sweep the boardidiom
- takesomeonedown
- takesomeoneto the cleaner'sidiom
- takesomethingapart
- takedown
- thrash
Examplesofoutclassed
outclassed
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
We might then beoutclassedin the cold war.
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As a consequence we are entirelyoutclassedand our year's profit may have turned into a loss.
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Any country that neglects this will find itselfoutclassedand outperformed on and behind the battlefield, whatever mass of individual equipment it can muster.
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That is partly because farmers are continuing to growoutclassedvarieties of cereals.
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We wereoutclassedin scientific effort, money, materials of all kinds including fissile, and our economic system was showing signs of distress.
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I have always found that where there has been individual class hatred it has been in the case of a man who has beenoutclassed.
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This threat seems to haveoutclassedanything we have seen since the war.
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There, we would appear to be locallyoutclassedby a factor of 2:1.
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The ingenuity of designers is alwaysoutclassedby the ingenuity of an operator who wants to get through a system.
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We would not have to go on very long like that to be decidedlyoutclassed.
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Quantitatively they areoutclassedby other types.
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Lampeter men are quiteoutclassedby the students of the colleges who enjoy the full advantages of the new system.
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We have beenoutclassed, outworked, underpriced, unprepared to deliver ships on time, we have had deplorable labour relations and the trade union movement has been out of control.
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It wasoutclassed, and the club wanted him to do cigarette commercials to reimburse them for the expense, but he refused.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The visiting team wasoutclassedto-night quite as decisively as the score indicates.
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