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
But imagine if instead the Brewers had outbid the Dodgers and they had to go through Skubal first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
It’s one thing getting outbid — it’s quite another being given a red card by your lender.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“In other words, chip companies have margins that allow them to outbid nearly all other users of gas to secure adequate supplies.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
“You outbid us because you knew we lost?”
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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
With this spirit of ignorant or lawless admiration the novelty of yesterday is eclipsed by the novelty of to-day; other things being equal, the later instance of disproportion always outbids the earlier.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson
Gaveston is outbidden at the sale, and George weds Anna.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
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
"One thousand and one hundred," said Ayoub the irrepressible And now Tsamanni not only found himself outbidden, but he had reached the outrageous limit appointed by Asad.
From The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini
When Phillips heard that Johnson had outbidden him, he described the offer as 'monstrous,' and that it was 'inspired by a spirit of revenge.'
From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Clement King Shorter
European gas prices soared over the quarter after the region was forced to replace lost Middle Eastern cargos by outbidding Asian customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
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
Amazon reportedly spent $40 million to secure the rights to produce and stream a documentary about Melania Trump, outbidding both Disney and Paramount.
From Salon ● Apr. 29, 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
People turned to see who was outbidding the large man in the front.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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