Competition
Synonyms for outdo
The synonym for outdo recorded in this bank is surpass, in the sense "to do better than someone else at a shared activity". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for outdo
- surpassverb, in the sense "to do better than someone else at a shared activity"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day outdo is audited in a second meaning.
to do better than someone else at a shared activity
Every season the two rival bakeries try to outdo each other with more elaborate wedding cakes.
The true synonym
surpass
Same sentence, swapped: Every season the two rival bakeries try to surpass each other with more elaborate wedding cakes.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- imitate
- flatter
- humor
Where outdo turns up in the game
outdo is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where outdo is the trap
- routverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is expel, in the sense "cause to flee", so outdo is there to be ruled out.
Play outdo
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so outdo reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other competition words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. outdo carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.