OUTNUMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outnumber mean? 

• OUTNUMBER (verb)
  The verb OUTNUMBER has 1 sense:

1. be larger in number

  Familiarity information: OUTNUMBER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTNUMBER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outnumber    ... he / she / it outnumbers   
Past simple: outnumbered   
Past participle: outnumbered   
-ing form: outnumbering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be larger in number

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "outnumber" is one way to...):

add up; amount; come; number; total (add up in number or quantity)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

We're outnumbered, I needn't tell you that, but we fight in shelter; and a minute ago I should have said we fought with discipline.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A slow-growing benign pseudotumor in which plasma cells greatly outnumber the inflammatory cells.

(Plasma Cell Granuloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In fact, these lonely worlds, which sit quietly in the darkness of space without any companion planets or even a host sun, might outnumber stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

(Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars, NASA)

These microbes significantly outnumber the body’s cells.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

Male trees usually outnumbered female trees by more than three to one.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

A minority is a group that is outnumbered by persons who do not belong to it, often people with different nationality, religion, culture or lifestyle from that of the mainstream in the society; racial or ethnic groups officially recognized by the U.S. government as minority populations.

(Minority Group, NCI Thesaurus)