Synonyms of outdoing

outdoing

verb

present participle of outdo

as in surpassing

to be greater, better, or stronger than

two vaccine developers who spent years vigorously trying to outdo one another's research

Synonyms & Similar Words

• surpassing
• exceeding
• eclipsing
• topping
• outshining
• beating
• excelling
• outstripping
• transcending
• outdistancing
• outclassing
• bettering
• overcoming
• outmatching
• mastering
• outgunning
• towering (over)
• overtopping
• defeating
• overshadowing
• outpacing
• outrunning
• going one better
• besting
• outperforming
• outweighing
• outracing
• one-upping
• conquering
• subduing
• surmounting
• running circles around
• licking
• trouncing
• trumping
• clobbering
• outcompeting
• shaming
• crushing
• prevailing (over)
• overpassing
• winning (against)
• whipping
• trimming
• thrashing
• routing
• overmatching
• triumphing (over)
• walloping
• drubbing
• overbearing
• worsting
• outbalancing
• skunking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing (to)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of outdoing

Many of these employees have been buying homes, often outdoing rival buyers by offering well above the asking price, real estate agents say. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

View gallery - 3 images IBM has developed the blueprint for producing a processor using sub-1-nanometer (nm) chip technology, outdoing its own efforts to increase efficiency and processing power with 2-nm tech from a few years ago. — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 26 June 2026

As rumors have flown about this relentless Sacramento parking enforcement officer, Nakamura has quietly patrolled the streets, outdoing himself. — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2026

The Bruins shot a dominant 58% from the field, well outdoing the solid 43% for the Trojans. — Sean Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2026

Inside was a spectacle of epic proportions, somehow outdoing even the LED not-robot from earlier. — Jhair Romero, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2026

Nicole Kidman is batting 1,000 with her recent red-carpet and street style looks, but recently she's been outdoing herself with my favorite glam of her career. — Tamim Alnuweiri, InStyle, 15 Feb. 2026

Next came Unity—conceived, portentously, in the small Canadian town of Swastika—who, outdoing her sister, developed a girlhood crush on Hitler and moved to Germany to serve the Nazis. — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025

Taylor Swift is taking a bow after outdoing everyone — including herself — on the Billboard charts with The Life of a Showgirl this week. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 13 Oct. 2025