Outmuscled

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have been defeated in a display of bodily power or might
2. To have been outperformed by someone exhibiting greater physical force or ability
3. Having lost to another due to their greater bodily power

Etymology: "Outmuscled" is the past tense and past participle of "outmuscle," a verb formed in English by attaching the prefix "out-" to "muscle." The prefix comes down from Old English "ūt," meaning "outside" or "away from within," which gave the sense of surpassing or getting the better of someone. Joined to "muscle," it means to defeat or overpower another through greater physical strength. The base word "muscle" has its own older history, borrowed into English from French "muscle," which in turn came from Latin "musculus," a diminutive of "mus," meaning "mouse." The Romans apparently saw a flexing muscle as resembling a small mouse moving under the skin, and that image passed down through the centuries into our modern anatomical term.

Synonyms: overpowered, outmatched, defeated, overcame, surpassed

Antonyms: overpowered by, outmatched by, defeated by