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OVERMATCH

Traducere în limba română

overmatch I. verb tranzitiv

a fi mai puternic sau mai dibaci decât; a bate, a înfrânge.

overmatch II. substantiv

adversar prea puternic.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

And who knows but that even this prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The meanest sloop that ever sailed out of France would have overmatched her, and then it would be on me, and not on this Devonport bungler, that a court-martial would be called.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an overmatch for me, and field mice, with some others, too nimble, they could not imagine how I should be able to support myself, unless I fed upon snails and other insects, which they offered, by many learned arguments, to evince that I could not possibly do.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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