ONE-UPPED Synonyms: 54 Similar and Opposite Words

one-upped

verb

past tense of one-up

as in outpaced

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lost (to)

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Verb

Third graders even outpaced progress made across all grade levels, with an increase of nearly four percentage points.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
Inflation eased slightly last month, but price hikes still outpaced wage growth.

— Max Zahn, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of outpaced

Verb

Last December, Berman outdid himself, landing $867 million in financing from a group of lenders that include Apollo Global and JPMorgan Chase to convert a 1960s-era office building at 111 Wall Street.

— Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
Only goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel outdid him in United’s greatest season.

— Andy Mitten, New York Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of outdid

Verb

Virgilijus’s Olympic record had stood for 20 years before his son and eventual 2024 Olympic gold medalist Roje Stona surpassed the mark in Paris.

— Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2026
Alpha-Zero, as the system was called, surpassed human experts at chess, the Japanese chess variant Shogi, and the ancient strategy board game called Go.

— Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of surpassed

Verb

The absentee and mail ballot numbers have already topped the highest nonpresidential primary year, with more than 200,000 people already having voted.

— Esme Murphy, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Bieber's carousel also included a video of herself working out at a gym and a photo in which she was seen holding a plate of meatballs topped with red sauce and cheese.

— Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of topped

Verb

With a length of almost 1,100 feet and displacing more than 100,000 tons, Nimitz-class carriers are among the world’s largest warships, eclipsed only by the US Navy’s Ford-class carriers, of which only one is in service to date.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
From the perspective of our health systems, this work is nice-to-have but eclipsed by the gritty realities of clinical care.

— Kyle Vanelli, STAT, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of eclipsed

Verb

Worthy outran Kader Kohou for a score that got a rise from the fans in attendance.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 30 July 2026
In the $200,000 San Clemente Handicap 35-1 longshot Somerset West (Armando Ayuso) outran nine other 3-year-old fillies, including three formidable challengers who shipped in from the east.

— Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026

Definition of outran

Verb

On his 2017 tax return, Krneta reported $321,000 in net income, even though his total income, which included about $4,000 derived from criminal activity, exceeded $400,000, the plea stated.

— Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026
Soil samples from the two elementary school campuses, City Terrace and Christopher Dena, exceeded the applicable regulatory screening levels of lead, which were flagged for further evaluation.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of exceeded

Verb

Collectively, a chunk of players who excelled in June and early July are slumping in August.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026
Every product was determined to have excelled in each category by our editorial team, which is composed of in-house writers and editors as well as contributors—along with special consideration from fragrance experts.

— Kara Nesvig, Allure, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of excelled

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