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worsting

  • present participle
    of worst.
    worst
    adjective
    bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree.

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But if Michael, after thoroughly worsting you, asks me my opinion, I shall certainly give it him.

From Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

He fought with two knights who asked the lady Canacê to wife, the terms being that none should have her till he had succeeded in worsting Camballo in combat.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Ah, Julia remembered now, and with the recollection of the principal's words came the means of worsting Grace Harlowe in her efforts to vindicate Anne.

From Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

In the fighting of that day James Douglas, the second son of the fat Earl of Avondale, won the prize, worsting his elder brother William in the final encounter.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

Yates had a proud record to sustain, Harwell a decade of worsting to atone for.

From The Half-Back by Ralph Henry Barbour