OUTBID (outbidden, outbidding)

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Irregular inflected forms: outbidden    , outbidding   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does outbid mean? 

• OUTBID (verb)
  The verb OUTBID has 2 senses:

1. bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled

2. bid higher than others

  Familiarity information: OUTBID used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTBID (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outbid    ... he / she / it outbids   
Past simple: outbade    / outbid   
Past participle: outbade    / outbid    / outbidden   
-ing form: outbidding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bid over an opponent's bid when one's partner has not bid or doubled

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "outbid" is one way to...):

bid; call (make a demand, as for a card or a suit or a show of hands)

Domain category:

bridge (any of various card games based on whist for four players)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bid higher than others

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "outbid" is one way to...):

bid; offer; tender (propose a payment)

Domain category:

auction; auction sale; vendue (the public sale of something to the highest bidder)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

underbid (bid lower than a competing bidder)