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outbested

outbested is the simple past and past participle of outbest.

Meaning of outbest

Verb

outbest (third-person singular simple present outbests, present participle outbesting, simple past and past participle outbested)

  1. (transitive) To be better at something.
    • Always the competitor, he usually outbested me in everything we did, but Battle-Cry was his Achilles Heel.2010, David Mittler, Legacy of Fire

Questions about outbested

What is outbested the simple past and past participle of?
Outbested is the simple past and past participle of outbest.

Words near outbested in the dictionary

  1. outbenches
  2. outbenching
  3. outbending
  4. outbent
  5. outbest
  6. outbested
  7. outbesting
  8. outbests
  9. outbet
  10. outbets
  11. outbetted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outbested (page history and authors); outbest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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