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running circles aroundphraseor running rings aroundpresent participle of run circles around to be greater, better, or stronger thanWhen it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family. beating, bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outclassing, outdistancing, outdoing, outgunning, outmatching, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, towering (over), transcending one-upping, outpacing, outracing, outrunning, overpassingbesting, clobbering, conquering, crushing, defeating, drubbing, licking, mastering, outcompeting, outperforming, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), routing, shaming, skunking, subduing, surmounting, thrashing, trimming, triumphing (over), trouncing, walloping, whipping, winning (against), worstingoutbalancing, outweighing, overbearing, overshadowing, trumping going one better losing (to) to defeat by a large marginThe young girl ran circles around her chess opponent. annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking(slang), smothering, snowing under, thrashing, trimming, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing(slang), whipping, whomping, whopping(or whapping), whupping sweeping, upsettingbeating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worstingcrushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcendingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingbreaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering beating the pants off, eating alive, wiping the floor with(or wiping the ground with) |