get the better of

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Related to get the better of: in the first place, ease off, catch up, bring down, brace up, the likes of, stick to

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Verb

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"

Translations

يَنْتَصِرُ على، يَتَغَلَّبُ عَلى

překonatzvítězit

besejreslå

Oberhand gewinnen

l'emporter survenir à bout

föléje kerekedik

snúa á; sigra

overvinne

yenilgiye uğratmakyenmek

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better

(ˈbetə) adjective

1. good to a greater extent. His new car is better than his old one.

2. stronger in health; recovered (from an illness). I feel better today; She's better now.

3. preferable. Better to do it now than later.

adverb

well to a greater extent. He sings better now than he did before.

pronoun

someone or something which is good to a greater extent than the other (of two people or things). He's the better of the two.

verb

to improve (on). He's bettered all previous records; The situation has bettered a little.

better off

richer; happier in some way. He'd be better off working as a miner; You'd be better off without him.

the better part of

most of. He talked for the better part of an hour.

get the better of

to overcome; to win (against). He got the better of his opponent / the argument.

He is better today (not He is more better). He is much better is correct.
You had better come / You'd better come (not You better come).

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