outbid
Americanverb (used with object)
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outbids,
present (3rd person singular)
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outbid,
past participle, past
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outbidden,
past participle
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outbidding
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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outbidsimple
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outbidssimple
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have outbidperfect
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have outbiddenperfect
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has outbidperfect
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has outbiddenperfect
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am outbiddingprogressive
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are outbiddingprogressive
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is outbiddingprogressive
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have been outbiddingperfect progressive
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has been outbiddingperfect progressive
Past
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outbidsimple
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had outbidperfect
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had outbiddenperfect
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was outbiddingprogressive
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were outbiddingprogressive
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had been outbiddingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of outbid
Example Sentences
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We were in a fierce seller’s market and this was typical: Friends of ours in Boston had been making wild highball offers for years, and had always been outbid.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Netflix had come close to its own deal with Warner Bros but was outbid in the end by Paramount.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
European buyers would likely outbid those in Latin America, which has long been the main purchaser of U.S. diesel exports, and in Asia, driving up prices around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
When Guggenheim purchased the team in 2012, it outbid billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, who now owns the New York Mets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
He sounded like an enthusiastic collector who had been outbid at auction.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
I can imagine a scenario where a company such as Salesforce, which considered a Twitter acquisition in 2016, outbids Musk and walks off with Twitter.
From The Verge ● Apr. 14, 2022
Europe’s plan could impact emerging markets that are trying to transition away from fossil fuels, if Europe outbids them for gas supplies, say energy analysts.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 9, 2022
Or just enough to risk losing him to a team that outbids for his services via the NFL’s transition tag?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2017
Or constantly refreshing, sweating, hopin’ and a-prayin’ that someone outbids you, because you’ve blown your wages on a “french shabby chic armchair’” which is bigger than the actual square footage of your flat?
From The Guardian ● Sep. 11, 2014
"And the man who outbids me for that horse will have to mortgage his ranch and borrow money on his Liberty Bonds."
From The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
He would let himself be outbidden where Keith would have carried all before him by a superb if reckless persistence.
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
So long as the public will pay for gross personalities, obscenity, and slang, decent journals will be outbidden in the market.
From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"But it seems that she caught thy fancy, and the fool suffered himself to be outbidden."
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
He rose to scrutinize her closely, and must have been satisfied, for the price he offered was a good one, and he offered it with contemptuous assurance that he would not be outbidden.
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
I have long outbidden folly with folly, pride with pride, scorn with scorn, insolence with insolence, and have outlived many vanities with many more.
From Bleak House by Charles Dickens
With the key buying season to refill storage just around the corner, outbidding Asian countries in a tight market would be an expensive proposition.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Chinese companies spent $22 billion last year acquiring overseas mines, often outbidding Western competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2025
Occidental has been on the hunt to expand in shale fields since at least 2019, when it spent $38 billion to buy Anadarko, outbidding Chevron.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
The Home Office has been accused of leaving people homeless by outbidding councils in a fierce competition for scarce accommodation.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2023
People turned to see who was outbidding the large man in the front.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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