HAVE THE BEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does have the best mean? 

• HAVE THE BEST (verb)
  The verb HAVE THE BEST has 1 sense:

1. overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome

  Familiarity information: HAVE THE BEST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAVE THE BEST (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

get the best; have the best; overcome

Context example:

Heart disease can get the best of us

Hypernyms (to "have the best" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

I have the best proofs that it would be so.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Indeed, as a Libra, you have the best real estate aspects of any sign.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He shall have the best of everything.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He replied: "We have the best proof of that: your own evidence, when in the hypnotic trance this morning."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You shall certainly have the best in my power to give.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In three weeks' time—three weeks!—two weeks—ten days—we'll have the best ship, sir, and the choicest crew in England.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Marianne was to have the best place by the fire, was to be tempted to eat by every delicacy in the house, and to be amused by the relation of all the news of the day.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

It was plain to them all that Colonel Fitzwilliam came because he had pleasure in their society, a persuasion which of course recommended him still more; and Elizabeth was reminded by her own satisfaction in being with him, as well as by his evident admiration of her, of her former favourite George Wickham; and though, in comparing them, she saw there was less captivating softness in Colonel Fitzwilliam's manners, she believed he might have the best informed mind.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The long succession of British victories which had finally made the French take to their ports and resign the struggle in despair had given all of us the idea that for some reason a Briton on the water must, in the nature of things, always have the best of it against a Frenchman.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There are no guarantees, but you would have the best possible cosmic help to feel better.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)