Definition of outfight
: to outdo or surpass in fighting or competing : to fight or compete harder or more skillfully than
The southpaw went down from a counter left hook to the chin in the fifth … but appeared to outhustle and outfight Bujaj most of the way.— Bob Velin … Minnesota's pedestrian DBs [=defensive backs] could not outfight Penn State's big receivers.— David Jones
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The first known use of outfight was in 1650
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