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päihittää — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • best adj Of the highest quality, or most suitable; superlative of "good."
  • defeat verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
  • outdo verb To do better than someone else; to surpass.
  • outmatch verb To surpass or be better than something or someone else.
  • top noun The highest point or part of something.
  • trump noun In card games, a suit chosen (or turned up) to rank higher than the other three for that hand.
  • vanquish verb To defeat someone or something completely, especially in a fight or contest.

Senses

päihittää is used for these senses in English:

  • bear down (transitive) To push (someone) to the ground; to defeat, overcome. [from 14th c.]
  • best (transitive) To beat in a contest.
  • defeat (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
  • get the better of (transitive, idiomatic) To overwhelm or overcome.
  • go round To pass around, to circulate.
  • go round (intransitive) To be sufficient to be shared, to be enough for everyone.
  • kick ass (informal, vulgar, ambitransitive) To beat to a pulp; beat up
  • outdo (transitive) To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass.

best — full definition

  1. adj Of the highest quality, or most suitable; superlative of "good."
  2. noun The greatest possible effort someone can make.
  3. verb To defeat or outdo someone.

defeat — full definition

  1. verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
  2. verb To prevent something from succeeding or being achieved.
  3. noun An instance of losing, or of being overcome.

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