outwar

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English

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Etymology

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From out- +‎ war.

Verb

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outwar (third-person singular simple present outwars, present participle outwarring, simple past and past participle outwarred)

  1. (transitive) To defeat or surpass (someone) in warfare.
    • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Third, []”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. [], London: [] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, [], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] []), paragraph 138, page 586, column 2:
      They [the French] deſire (king Edward [III] grovvne aged) not to ſeeme by ſitting ſtill vpon ſo many thornes of diſgrace, and loſſe, to haue beene outvvarred, though ouer-vvarred, and though in tvvo or three battels inferior, yet not to haue beene clearly debellated.