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Outvote

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To outdo in voting: The county seat outvoted the smaller towns.

v. To defeat (an opponent or proposal, for example) in voting.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To cast more votes than another

v. To defeat another by obtaining more votes

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To exceed in the number of votes given; defeat by greater number of votes; outnumber.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. defeat by a majority of votes

Word Usage

"At any time when the Democrats had anywhere from 34 up through 67 Senators present and voting their way, the nominees could be confirmed, e.g., at 4 am tomorrow morning when 40 Democrats are around to outvote 18 Republicans."

Verb Form

outvoted outvotes outvoting

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

vote

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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