| VERB | competition | get the better of, overcome, defeat | win a victory over |
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| Meaning | win a victory over. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | overcome, defeat | |
| Narrower | beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish | Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict |
| conquer | Overcome by conquest | |
| demolish, destroy | defeat soundly | |
| down | bring down or defeat (an opponent) | |
| lurch, skunk | defeat by a lurch | |
| nose | defeat by a narrow margin | |
| overrun | seize the position of and defeat | |
| rout, rout out, expel | Cause to flee | |
| survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it | Continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.) | |
| upset | defeat suddenly and unexpectedly / unexpectedly | |
| wallop | defeat soundly and utterly | |
| Spanish | derrotar, recuperarse, superar, vencer | |
| Catalan | derrotar, recuperar-se, superar, vèncer | |
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