Definition of "outmatch" []

• To prove greater or better than; surpass. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity."
• "Can "Avatar" outmatch "Titanic" at the box office, or do you think the ship will sink?"
• "As narratives, these poems outmatch much of the recent crop of "flash fiction" currently in vogue on the prose side of the literary aisle."