Definition of "outpoint" [outpoint]

• Nautical To sail closer to the wind than (another vessel). (verb-transitive)
• Sports To surpass (an opponent, especially a boxer) in the number of points won. (verb-transitive)

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• "The proceeds outpoint those posted by the food, communications, auto, and entertainment industries."
• "Overall, the MDX does many things very well and manages to outpoint other luxury SUVs costing much more."
• "Abandoned to the care of cold and neurotic aunts in England while his father performed colonial duties in India, he and his siblings had to learn how to do without affection, and how to resist and outpoint adult callousness and stupidity."