get the better of

1. Win a victory over (synset 201110559)
   "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
   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.)
   same as: defeat, overcome

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