outmuscle

English

Etymology

out- +‎ muscle

Verb

outmuscle (third-person singular simple present outmuscles, present participle outmuscling, simple past and past participle outmuscled)

1. (transitive) To surpass in a contest involving strength.
   • 2009 March 30, William C. Rhoden, “For Coaches, Recruiting Top Players Can Lead to a Dark Side”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     UConn barreled through the West Regional, pummeling Purdue in the semifinals and outmuscling Missouri in the final.

   • 2016 November 28, Mike Vorkunov, “Despite Flash of Rose’s Prime, Knicks Are Dazed by Westbrook and Thunder”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     For most of the game they were outmuscled and outplayed, which left them bruised, physically and emotionally. […] “They just outmuscled us,” Knicks Coach Jeff Hornacek said. “Outmuscled and then, for a stretch, out-hustled.”