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outmaster en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + master.

Meanings

1. To overcome; to win or prevail in a competition.
   • He would outmaster, outflank, the mystery of iniquity by the mystery of godliness. 1894, Henry Scott Holland, God's City and the Coming of the Kingdom, page 151:
   • The great, hulking brute rubbed his jaw and lunged at Keel, but years of the finest royal training only made it easy for the angry merprince to outmaster the human. 2015, Jenni James, The Little Mermaid: Faerie Tale Collection, →ISBN:
   • Pleas'd with the guilt, yet envy-stung at heart To stand outmaster'd in his own black art! 1835, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge - Volume 2, page 81:
   • Don't try to outmaster the master. 2000, Catherine Coulter, Jade Star, →ISBN, page 204:

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