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outnumber

/aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/

outnumber verb: to be more in number than somebody or something.

Verb

outnumber (third-person singular simple present outnumbers, present participle outnumbering, simple past and past participle outnumbered)

  1. (stative, transitive) To be more in number than somebody or something.
    • Women outnumbered men by two to one.
    • There are 105 D.B. Type "23" engines and they were intended to replace the famous Prussian "P8" class 4-6-0s (Type "38"), but dieselisation prevented further construction and they are greatly outnumbered by the thousand or so "P8s" which are still in service and which can be seen on a great variety...1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railways: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553

outnumber meaning in Tamil and Kannada

outnumber in Tamil

எண்ணிக்கையில் மிஞ்சு

outnumber in Kannada

ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮೀರಿಸು, ಅಧಿಕ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆಯಲ್ಲಿರು, ಸಂಖ್ಯಾಬಲದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಿಗಿಲಾಗಿರು, ಎಣಿಕೆಮೀರು

Examples of outnumber in a sentence

  • Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.1999 January 10, Edward Said, “The One-State Solution”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2022:
  • When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.2007 October 14, Frank Rich, “The ‘Good Germans’ Among Us”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022:
  • The group assembled in Romare Bearden Park shortly after 6 p.m., just barely outnumbering a dozen city police officers stationed in clusters around the area’s edge.2025 June 27, Lila Hempel-Edgers, Damenica Ellis, “Protesters gathered in uptown Charlotte to oppose Trump bombing of Iran sites”, in The...

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Forms of outnumber

third-person singular presentoutnumbers
present participleoutnumbering
past participleoutnumbered
pastoutnumbered

Past tense of outnumber: outnumbered

Origin of outnumber

From out- + number.

Questions about outnumber

What does outnumber mean?
Outnumber means to be more in number than somebody or something.
What is outnumber in Tamil?
Outnumber in Tamil is எண்ணிக்கையில் மிஞ்சு. See Outnumber meaning in Tamil.
How do you use outnumber in a sentence?
Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.
What part of speech is outnumber?
Outnumber is a verb.
How do you pronounce outnumber?
Outnumber is pronounced /aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of outnumber?
The past tense of outnumber is outnumbered.

Words near outnumber in the dictionary

  1. outnights
  2. outnoise
  3. outnoised
  4. outnoises
  5. outnoising
  6. outnumber
  7. outnumbered
  8. outnumbering
  9. outnumbers
  10. Outokumpu
  11. outorganize

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