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OUTBID

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: outbidden    , outbidding   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bid higher than others

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "outbid" is one way to...):

bid; offer; tender (propose a payment)

Domain category:

auction; auction sale; vendue (the public sale of something to the highest bidder)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

underbid (bid lower than a competing bidder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "outbid" is one way to...):

bid; call (make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands)

Domain category:

bridge (any of various card games based on whist for four players)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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