running circles around
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variants or running rings around
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as in excelling
to be greater, better, or stronger than When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family. Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- excelling
- exceeding
- topping
- towering (over)
- surpassing
- going one better
- overcoming
- transcending
- beating
- outstripping
- eclipsing
- overtopping
- overshadowing
- bettering
- outshining
- outdistancing
- outdoing
- licking
- outclassing
- outmatching
- trimming
- conquering
- mastering
- defeating
- outgunning
- subduing
- triumphing (over)
- winning (against)
- prevailing (over)
- outpacing
- outrunning
- routing
- worsting
- outracing
- surmounting
- outperforming
- whipping
- overmatching
- shaming
- crushing
- overpassing
- trouncing
- clobbering
- thrashing
- outbalancing
- drubbing
- outcompeting
- outweighing
- walloping
- besting
- trumping
- overbearing
- one-upping
- skunking
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- losing (to)
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as in blowing away
to defeat by a large margin The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent. Synonyms & Similar Words
- blowing away
- throwing
- eating alive
- burying
- licking
- overcoming
- wiping the ground with
- snowing under
- beating the pants off
- wiping the floor with
- bombing
- whipping
- routing
- taking
- upsetting
- flattening
- dusting
- trimming
- pasting
- smoking
- beating
- subduing
- whopping
- succeeding
- annihilating
- skinning
- mastering
- thrashing
- knocking over
- clobbering
- trouncing
- drubbing
- scoring
- smothering
- waxing
- walloping
- shellacking
- knocking off
- creaming
- finishing
- conquering
- surmounting
- dispatching
- excelling
- overwhelming
- tromping
- whapping
- crushing
- triumphing (over)
- whupping
- winning (against)
- prevailing (over)
- topping
- whomping
- sweeping
- doing in
- nosing out
- skunking
- slaughtering
- destroying
- acing (out)
- edging (out)
- surpassing
- exceeding
- worsting
- overmatching
- overbearing
- sinking
- transcending
- overpowering
- overthrowing
- subjugating
- hurdling
- vanquishing
- outstripping
- eclipsing
- besting
- capping
- bettering
- outshining
- overtopping
- upending
- outdistancing
- flourishing
- outdoing
- breaking
- pipping
- outfighting
