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outpoint

vb. (context sports English) To score more points than (especially, in boxing, to achieve victory by scoring more points that one's opponent).

WordNet
outpoint
  1. v. sail closer to the wind than

  2. score more points than one's opponents [syn: outscore]

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Outpoint

Outpoint is a term frequently used in boxing to describe a situation in which one boxer is awarded more points than his or her opponent by the judges, but does not knock out that opponent.

Usage examples of "outpoint".

We have guns sufficient to protect us against any light vessel that could catch us, and enough turn of speed to outrun or outpoint anything heavier.

Barota outpointed him, and Jackie Finnegan, Frankie Grogan and Flash Sullivan, the lightheavy champion.

Philosophers accepted that Kuhn had outpointed Popper, but sought an alternative way that avoided his sociologizing conclusions and retained the validity of the internalist account of science.

He stepped to her in two long strides, stood before her with outpointed toes, took her hand, and placed it against his chest.

Because my endocranial volume outpointed hers by at least seven hundred centimeters, her baby had inherited from me a genetic template for a brain case perilously larger than the habiline norm.

He walked forward toward the outpointed knife, walked straight-limbed and head up, his shoulders squared, his jaw set in fashion that indicated how completely caution had been flung aside.

By the time Ryan reached Uda and the girls, Doc, Mildred and Jak had closed in as well, and the children were ringed with outpointing blasters.

He had courage in plenty, as he proved on more than one occasion--but he was content to box mostly, outpointing his opponents and piling up just enough lead to keep from losing.

Yankee passes for a mighty clever guesser, outpointing with ease his transatlantic cousin.

They continued to play as they finished lunch, Gail barely outpointing Gretchen Phillips in the next contest.

Philosophers accepted that Kuhn had outpointed Popper, but sought an alternative way that avoided his sociologizing conclusions and retained the validity of the internalist account of science.

By the time Ryan reached Uda and the girls, Doc, Mildred and Jak had closed in as well, and the children were ringed with outpointing blasters.

I perceived at this time that the large Indian canoes, like Vehiatua's, could outpoint and outfoot any European vessel of their day.