get the better of
Verb
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subtypes:
- demolish, destroy - defeat soundly and humiliatingly
- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- wallop - defeat soundly and utterly
- down - bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- overrun - seize the position of and defeat
- lurch, skunk - defeat by a lurch
- expel, rout, rout out - cause to flee
- upset - defeat suddenly and unexpectedly
- nose - defeat by a narrow margin
- conquer - overcome by conquest
- come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
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