Usually means: Overcoming or surpassing someone else.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. besting: Merriam-Webster
  2. besting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. besting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Besting, besting: Wordnik
  5. besting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. besting: Wiktionary
  7. besting: Dictionary.com
  8. besting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. besting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besting: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. besting: Medical dictionary

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  1. besting: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Best)

adjective:  Most; largest.
adjective:  Most superior; most favorable.
adverb:  To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.
noun:  (uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.
noun:  (uncountable) One's best behavior.
noun:  (countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.
verb:  (transitive) To surpass in skill or achievement.
verb:  (transitive) To beat in a contest.
verb:  (modal verb, colloquial) Had best.
noun:  A surname.
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