outfought

verb

past tense of outfight
as in outdistanced

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outfought
  1. outdistanced
  2. outdid
  3. surpassed
  4. vanquished
  5. eclipsed
  6. exceeded
  7. outstripped
  8. bettered
Verb
  • Perennial champ Joey Chestnut far outdistanced the field with 66 dogs officially consumed.
    — Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 4 July 2026
  • The Lancers outdistanced runner-up Classical Academy (367) and Los Alamitos (372), both of which also qualified for state.
    — Dan Albano, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
Definition of outdistanced
Verb
  • Test Score also rallied from behind but had a little smoother journey under Juan Hernandez and outdid the other closers.
    — Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Only the 27 productions running during the week ending August 16, only Hamilton‘s box office outdid Ragtime, with the former taking in $2,123,135.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of outdid
Verb
  • Released late last year, the short by writer-director Martin Hemingway-Moseley has surpassed 600k views on YouTube, maintained a 99% approval rating and has a strong following across social platforms.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • In 2023, traffic fatalities (336 in total, including 179 pedestrians) surpassed homicides for the first time in a decade.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of surpassed
Verb
  • Bad guys vanquished… or at the very least, viable scapegoats neutralized.
    — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Over the course of ten wildly successful games, Kratos vanquished mortals, creatures and gods alike.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of vanquished
Verb
  • But Krasner has long been eclipsed by the shadow of her husband, even after his death in 1956.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • CruiseCup eclipsed Solefully quickly enough for Satterlee to shut down the latter in June 2025.
    — Megan Sauer Valentina Duarte, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of eclipsed
Verb
  • Musk's contribution alone also exceeded the Democratic Senate Majority PAC's entire third-quarter fundraising.
    — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Still, attendance at three of the past four Jaguars games at Wembley exceeded 86,000.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of exceeded
Verb
  • Since Western Australia’s Argyle Mine closed in 2020, the demand for pink diamonds has outstripped a rapidly dwindling supply.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The ecommerce upstart, which quickly outstripped legacy rivals like H&M and Zara in online apparel sales during the pandemic, saw its New York, then London, listing aspirations unravel amid mounting regulatory and political scrutiny.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of outstripped
Verb
  • In the meantime, however, humankind was not there to be bettered.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Yet again, nobody on the field bettered the Bosnian’s 13 defensive contributions, the majority of which came down to his nine clearances.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of bettered
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