outcompeted

verb

past tense of outcompete
as in defeated

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outcompeted
  1. defeated
  2. outperformed
  3. conquered
  4. routed
  5. trounced
  6. clobbered
  7. bested
  8. overcame
Verb
  • Samuel, or Samuil in Bulgarian, was a warrior emperor who battled the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom but was ultimately defeated and died shortly afterward in 1014.
    — COSTAS KANTOURIS, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The 1995 Jayhawks went 10-2 and defeated UCLA 51-30 in the bowl game.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of defeated
Verb
  • Nvidia — While chipmakers broadly declined as tech stocks were lower to start the week, with the iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) off 2%, Nvidia’s stock outperformed and was up 2%.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Campaigns built on hyper-contextual targeting (ads placed alongside specific content and moments rather than placed using a broad demographic label) outperformed generic targeting by three times.
    — Tony Gonzalez, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of outperformed
Verb
  • The title hints that the film will follow Aegon the Conqueror, who, along with his sister-wives Visenya and Rhaenys, invaded Westeros and conquered most of the Seven Kingdoms with the help of their dragons, Balerion, Vhagar and Meraxes.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
  • After consolidating their political power throughout Italy, the Romans conquered most of southern and western Europe and the Mediterranean coastal regions, including North Africa.
    — Scott Spires, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of conquered
Verb
  • That spending is routed carefully, and Gopalkrishnan said the bank is model-agnostic.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
  • In production architecture, verification and validation loops have to be placed around every point where AI works, and any field that shows a confidence score below a set threshold has to be routed automatically to human review.
    — Pranit Banthia, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of routed
Verb
  • Tyrell Henry caught 14 passes to set a Wisconsin single-game record and Colton Joseph threw for 362 yards and accounted for four touchdowns as the Badgers trounced Eastern Michigan 54-10 on Saturday.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Shares of the drone manufacturer jumped 10% after first-quarter results trounced estimates.
    — Michelle Fox,Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of trounced
Verb
  • Then Beamer and his boys went on the road and got clobbered by Alabama to the tune of a 49-18 beatdown.
    — Austin Perry OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The 27-year-old clobbered his 40th homer of the season in the first inning and performed an encore with his 41st in the fourth.
    — James O'Connell, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of clobbered
Verb
  • Oregon coach Dan Lanning has bested Riley in both of their head-to-head meetings, too.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Grichuk bested his former team with a three-run homer to effectively put the game away.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of bested
Verb
  • Saturday’s game showed a team that overcame both mental and physical hurdles.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Yet Johncock, who started 11th, overcame the chaos and was one of just two cars on the lead lap when more rain forced the race to be stopped.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of overcame
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“Outcompeted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outcompeted. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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