outclass

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to be far superior to; to surpass decisively in quality or skill

   The veteran champion outclassed every opponent in the tournament.

A late 19th-century English compound of the prefix 'out-' ('surpassing') plus 'class' (from Latin 'classis', 'a division of the Roman people'), meaning to be of a higher class than.

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