- present tense form of match (3rd person singular).
matches
Example Sentences
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Hoffman is so proficient in this role that he just about overmatches Cruise and makes the wait until he speaks again in the second half of the film hard to endure with any patience.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023
They’re talismans, deployed to fend off disorder and a creeping dread that, when it arrives, overmatches even Lydia’s lacerating ego and icy self-control.
From Washington Post • Oct. 12, 2022
The backwoodsmen, wonted to vigorous athletic pastimes, and to fierce brawls among themselves, were generally overmatches for the Indians in hand-to-hand struggles.
From The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Roosevelt, Theodore
If one army greatly overmatches the other, the weaker side will probably retire without risking a contest.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by Davis, William Stearns
Come to our aid when we are sore pressed, when the close grapple is imminent, when the enemy overmatches us, and we have been surrounded by them.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald
