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See also: out-gun

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From out- +‎ gun.

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outgun (third-person singular simple present outguns, present participle outgunning, simple past and past participle outgunned)

  1. (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.