outcompete
English
    
    Alternative forms
    
- out-compete
 
Verb
    
outcompete (third-person singular simple present outcompetes, present participle outcompeting, simple past and past participle outcompeted)
- To be more successful than a competitor; especially to thrive in the presence of an organism that is competing for resources.
- 2020 November 7, Yuval Noah Harari, “At Home With Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- While individual Neanderthals were perhaps as inquisitive, imaginative and creative as individual Sapiens, superior networking enabled Sapiens to swiftly outcompete Neanderthals.
 
 - 2022 July 11, Helena Horton, “Oral contraceptives could help reduce grey squirrel numbers, research finds”, in The Guardian:
- Grey squirrels are an invasive species in the UK, introduced from North America in the 1870s. They pose a problem for wildlife including endangered red squirrels, which they outcompete.
 
 
 
Coordinate terms
    
- overcompete
 - undercompete
 
Translations
    
be much more successful than a competitor
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