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outnumber

verb
/aʊtˈnʌmbə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From out- + number.

  1. derived from *nem-✻
  2. derived from numerus
  3. derived from nombre
  4. derived from noumbre
  5. inherited from number
  6. formed as outnumber — “out- + number”

Definitions

  1. To be more in number than somebody or something.

    • Women outnumbered men by two to one.
    • Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA