outkill

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ kill.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /aʊtˈkɪl/
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Verb

outkill (third-person singular simple present outkills, present participle outkilling, simple past and past participle outkilled)

  1. (transitive, stative) To kill more than.
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 119:
      Southerners do not outkill northerners in homicides carried out during robberies, they found, only in those sparked by quarrels.
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