📖 Definitions of "Bested"
verb
- 1
To surpass in skill or achievement.
- 2
To beat in a contest
🔄 Synonyms of "Bested"
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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Bested"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| defeatedverb | Subjugated, beaten, overcome. |
| outdoneverb | (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. |
| beatverb | (transitive) To hit; to strike. |
| vanquishedverb | Defeated. |
| beaten | Defeated. |
| battered | Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered. |
| whipped | Of food: prepared by whipping or beating. |
| brokeverb | To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker. |
| foughtnoun | A surname. |
| bludgeonedverb | (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club. |
| conqueredverb | To defeat in combat; to subjugate. |
| spankedverb | (transitive) To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, or for sexual gratification. |
| topped | Having or consisting of a top; covered with a top layer. |
| betteredverb | (intransitive) To become better; to improve. |
| trouncedverb | (transitive) To beat or overcome thoroughly, to defeat heavily; especially (games, sports) to win against (someone) by a wide margin. |
| outlastedverb | (transitive) To live, last or remain longer than. |
| outdidverb | (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. |
| surpassedverb | (transitive) To go beyond or exceed (something) in an adjudicative or literal sense. |
| equaledverb | (mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. |
| outdistancedverb | (transitive) To run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin. |
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