outnumber
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they outnumber | |
he / she / it outnumbers | |
past simple outnumbered | |
past participle outnumbered | |
-ing form outnumbering |
- outnumber somebody/something
to be greater in number than somebody/something (在数量上)压倒,比…多 The demonstrators were heavily outnumbered by the police. 示威者人数远不及警察人数。 In this profession, women outnumber men by two to one (= there are twice as many women as men). 在这个行业,女性人数是男性的两倍。
Extra ExamplesThe Spanish were hopelessly outnumbered in the battle. 西班牙人在战斗中的人数处于绝对劣势。 Their failures vastly outnumber their successes. 他们失败的次数远远超过成功的次数。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- easily
- far
- greatly
- …
- by
- be hopelessly outnumbered