outlitigate
English
Etymology
out- + litigate
Verb
outlitigate (third-person singular simple present outlitigates, present participle outlitigating, simple past and past participle outlitigated)
- (transitive) To defeat in litigation.
- 2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times:
- The film lays out how Mr. Gore, and the nation, missed a chance to find out for sure, partly through Mr. Gore’s own lack of nerve but mostly because the Democrats were outlitigated and outfoxed by a tougher, more sophisticated team of Republican lawyers and political consultants.
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