outmatch
Americanverb (used with object)
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outmatches,
present (3rd person singular)
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outmatched,
past participle, past
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outmatching
present participle
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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outmatchsimple
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outmatchessimple
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have outmatchedperfect
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has outmatchedperfect
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am outmatchingprogressive
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are outmatchingprogressive
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is outmatchingprogressive
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have been outmatchingperfect progressive
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has been outmatchingperfect progressive
Past
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outmatchedsimple
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had outmatchedperfect
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was outmatchingprogressive
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were outmatchingprogressive
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had been outmatchingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of outmatch
Example Sentences
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Court reporters outmatch the technology in skill, but their profession faces another crisis: a shortage of workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
"If you add up our economies, we outmatch Russia 25-to-one," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
Cameron, speaking after talks with Colonna in Paris, said that if the economies of Ukraine’s Western partners are calculated together, “we outmatch the Russian economy by 25 to one or more.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
The Kremlin has boasted that the Kinzhal can fly at speeds up to Mach 10 and would outmatch the weapons of any adversary.
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2023
Yet Birge underestimated Robert Sproul, one of the few people who could outmatch Ernest Lawrence in cajolery.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Last year, I described her as a member of “pop’s middle class”: a group of internet-beloved artists creating music that makes winking reference to pop history, whose celebrity vastly outmatches their commercial success.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2024
But the need far outmatches the number of new homes.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
If you think of the rate of evolution, it just outmatches anything, including proprietary competitors that might have hundreds of millions of billions of dollars behind them.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
Fullerton student Emiliano Perez played “VR Showdown” at Knott’s Berry Farm recently and said it outmatches the virtual soccer games he plays on his home Xbox system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
"But, Prince," he said gravely, "you speak lightly enough of the possibilities of war, but surely you must know that the English fleet in the Channel and at Gibraltar altogether outmatches the Baltic Fleet?"
From A Maker of History by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
Analysts have said Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and Game Pass subscription service are underperforming and being outmatched by competitors, including smaller, cheaper rivals like the Nex Playground active game system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
It was exactly the sort of suffocating defense Musselman envisioned his team playing this season, its size and length proving too much for outmatched Illinois.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2025
Taiwan's coastguard is massively outmatched by China's fleet, the largest in the world.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Many fans seemingly forgot that she was still a rookie, and that she played for a team so outmatched it had just earned the No. 1 draft pick during consecutive seasons.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2024
Ali-Reza and Hossein were out on the field again, engaged in a two-on-eight game against a group of clearly outmatched younger kids.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll said the system is “absolutely incredible,” outmatching comparable U.S. platforms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
As streaming services vie with Hollywood for credibility and prestige they've thrown huge amounts of money at directing talent - often far outmatching anything a legacy studio can offer - with success.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
For years, the jail system had rotated incarcerated people in and out of housing areas on a regular basis, seeking to prevent detainees from banding together and outmatching correction officers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021
With a layup and free throw by Goran Dragic with 1 minute 15 seconds left before halftime, Phoenix led by 11 and appeared to be outmatching the Nets offensively.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2013
‘Then come, and let your brother go with us, and some other of your folk who is most swift! For we have need of speed greater than any wind, outmatching the wings of the Nazgûl.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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