S: (v) beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict) "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
S: (v) get the best, have the best, overcome (overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome) "Heart disease can get the best of us"
S: (v) surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform (be or do something to a greater degree) "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class"
S: (v) checkmate, mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game) "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves"