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Definition of Outgun
1. Verb. (transitive) to be more heavily armed than, to have more firepower than ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outgun
1. to surpass in firepower [v -GUNNED, -GUNNING, -GUNS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outgun
Literary usage of Outgun
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... the net rate oi power outgun by she plant or power development. Water power
ranks with mines and the sod as one of the ..."
2. The Middle East and North Africa: The Challenge to Western Security by Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann (1981)
"The POLISARIO formations—highly mobile, well equipped with Soviet-made surface-to-air
missiles, rocket launchers, and automatic weapons—began to outgun the ..."
3. Energy Efficiency: Challenges and Trends for Electric Utilities (1993)
"But units and assets so light may be not be able to outgun the bully's neighbors.11 As
the difficulty of choosing between the two structures increases, so, ..."
4. American Neutrality in the 20th Century: The Impossible Dream by John N. Petrie (1996)
"The possibility that her prey might outgun her forced a submarine to treat all
belligerent shipping alike and attack without warning. ..."
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