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out-gun

out-gun is the alternative spelling of outgun.

Meaning of outgun

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To defeat in terms of firepower.
    • Two can play at destructive industrialism, and now we out-gun you. We are piling up munitions now faster than you.1917, H.G. Wells, War and the Future

Forms of out-gun

third-person singular presentout-guns
present participleout-gunning
past participleout-gunned
pastout-gunned

Questions about out-gun

What is out-gun the alternative spelling of?
Out-gun is the alternative spelling of outgun.

Words near out-gun in the dictionary

  1. out-going
  2. out-gone
  3. out-group
  4. out-groups
  5. out-guess
  6. out-gun
  7. out-gunned
  8. out-gunning
  9. out-guns
  10. out-Herod
  11. out-Heroded

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