get the better of

Thesaurus

Verb

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get the better of - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" defeat, overcome demolish, destroy - defeat soundly; "The home team demolished the visitors" beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" wallop - defeat soundly and utterly; "We'll wallop them!" down - bring down or defeat (an opponent) overrun - seize the position of and defeat; "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land" skunk, lurch - defeat by a lurch rout, rout out, expel - cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" upset - defeat suddenly and unexpectedly; "The foreign team upset the local team" nose - defeat by a narrow margin conquer - overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country" make it, pull round, pull through, survive, come through - continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"