单词 | outvote |
释义 | outˈvote, v. [out- 18.] trans. To outnumber in voting; to defeat by a majority of votes.
1647H. More Poems Pref., The sense of the soul will be changed, being outvoted as it were by the overswaying number of terrene particles. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry iii. ix. 107 A contest between the women and the men, wherein the females did out-vote the males, and carried it for Minerva against Neptune. 1778[see out-argue]. 1861May Const. Hist. (1863) I. vii. 480 In 1852, Lord Derby's ministry were out-voted on their proposal for doubling the house tax. |

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