verb.
to surpass or be better than something or someone else
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verb.
be or do something to a greater degree
Word Usage
"In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity."