get the better of

Questions about get the better of

What is another word for get the better of?

It depends which get the better of you mean. In the sense “win a victory over”, the synonyms are overcome, defeat. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of get the better of?

WordNet records no antonym for get the better of. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for get the better of come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of get the better of

• Full entry for get the better ofAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for get the better ofWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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