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outgunned

adjective

  1. overwhelm with (military) force
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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Having insufficient guns compared to the enemy.

    The fighters were hugely outgunned by the regular army.

    The opposite is true, said Dulcie Flaherty, executive director of the Montgomery County Lands Trust: "We are very outgunned. We need to have funding […]

  2. Up against formidable adverse circumstances or (especially) adversarial forces.

    Near-synonyms: outmatched, in too deep, out of one's depth, over one's head

verb

  1. past participle of outgun
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