Outnumber
(verb)
- Be more numerous than.
- Outnumber the enemy.
Origin:
Late middle english: from old french outnombrer, from out- (expressing excess) + nombrer "to number".
Examples:
- The protesters outnumber the police.
- The Democrats outnumber the Republicans in the state legislature.
- The population of this city outnumbers the other one.
- The number of cars on the road outnumber the number of motorcycles.
- The number of boys outnumber the number of girls in the class.