outkill

English edit

Etymology edit

From out- +‎ kill.

Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈkɪl/

Verb edit

outkill (third-person singular simple present outkills, present participle outkilling, simple past and past participle outkilled)

(transitive, stative) To kill more than.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 119:
  Southerners do not outkill northerners in homicides carried out during robberies, they found, only in those sparked by quarrels.