outˈnumber, v.
[out- 21.]
trans. To exceed in number, to number more than. Hence outˈnumbering ppl. a.
| 1670 Dryden Conq. Granada i. i, Unarm'd and much out-number'd we retreat. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 82 They out-numbered us three to one. 1795 Southey Joan of Arc v. 423 Frequent and fierce the garrison repell'd Their far out-numbering foes. 1879 Froude Cæsar xix. 322 He was besieging an army far outnumbering his own. |