beat 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"
beat out -
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"
get the better of,
defeat,
overcome 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"
get the best,
have the best,
overcome overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us"
get over,
master,
overcome,
surmount,
subdue to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; "Let's get this job over with"; "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"
checkmate,
mate place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"
immobilise,
immobilize cause to be unable to move; "The sudden storm immobilized the traffic"
outplay excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers"
