Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To cast more votes than another

    defeat by a majority of votes

  2. (transitive)To defeat another by obtaining more votes

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Everyone joined forces to outvote the Islamists.

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Forms

outvotes, outvoting, outvoted, outvoted
Base formoutvote · to outvote
3rd person singularoutvotes
Present participleoutvoting
Past simpleoutvoted
Past participleoutvoted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoutvote
he, she, itoutvotes

Past simpleLesson

all personsoutvoted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave outvoted
he, she, ithas outvoted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill outvote

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
outstandinglyoutstretchoutstripouttaoutwardB1

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