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Synonyms & Antonyms of worsted
- how humiliating for a tennis champ to be worsted by a player no one had ever heard of
Synonyms for worsted
- beat,
- bested,
- conquered,
- defeated,
- did down
- [British],
- dispatched,
- got,
- got around,
- licked,
- mastered,
- overbore,
- overcame,
- overmatched,
- prevailed (over),
- skunked,
- stopped,
- subdued,
- surmounted,
- took,
- trimmed,
- triumphed (over),
- upended,
- won (against)
Words Related to worsted
- edged (out),
- nosed out,
- pipped
- [British]
- annihilated,
- blew away,
- blew out,
- bombed,
- broke,
- buried,
- clobbered,
- creamed,
- crushed,
- drubbed,
- finished,
- flattened,
- overwhelmed,
- routed,
- shellacked,
- skinned,
- slaughtered,
- smoked
- [slang],
- snowed under,
- thrashed,
- trounced,
- upset,
- walloped,
- waxed
- [slang],
- whipped
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