outgun
See also: out-gun
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editoutgun (third-person singular simple present outguns, present participle outgunning, simple past and past participle outgunned)
- (transitive) To defeat in terms of firepower.
- 1917, H.G. Wells, War and the Future:
- Two can play at destructive industrialism, and now we out-gun you. We are piling up munitions now faster than you.
- 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood:
- "Boarding is our only chance here. We are too heavily outgunned."
- 1994, Bill Clinton, State of the Union Address:
- There is no sporting purpose on earth that should stop the United States Congress from banishing assault weapons that outgun police and cut down children.