outnumber
verb (used with object)
Origin of outnumber
Related Words for outnumber
exceed, surmount, surpass, outstrip, override, swamp, lead, pass, top, beat, best, eclipse, outdo, outpace, transcend, outshineExamples from the Web for outnumber
Contemporary Examples of outnumber
They outnumber and may even outweigh all other forms of life.
Why Did It Take So Long For Complex Life To Evolve On Earth? Blame Oxygen.Matthew R. Francis
November 2, 2014
So, Grey Worm arms the slaves of Meereen, who outnumber the citizens three-to-one.
Game of Thrones’ ‘Oathkeeper’: Joffrey’s Killer Revealed, White Walkers, and A New Jaime LannisterMarlow Stern
April 28, 2014
The Egyptians outnumber the Palestinians by about 70 million potential voters.
In the House, new representatives mean that women and people of color will outnumber white men in the Democratic caucus.
ABC’s ‘Scandal’: Women in Washington, Political Power, and Holly PetraeusAlyssa Rosenberg
November 14, 2012
A good deal of the money also goes to a spreading bureaucracy of administrators, who now outnumber teachers on American campuses.
Historical Examples of outnumber
The British outnumber us considerably, I think, but just how much I do not know.
The Dare Boys of 1776Stephen Angus Cox
They fight only at an advantage,—when they outnumber the whites.
Three Years on the PlainsEdmund B. Tuttle
And the views of Paris outnumber the others, and almost outvalue them also.
The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)Alphonse Daudet
Mr. Parker says that the lingams in Benares "outnumber the inhabitants."
Following the Equator, CompleteMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Within a century, we will outnumber them—we will be the Normals, not they.
The Penal ClusterIvar Jorgensen (AKA Randall Garrett)