outlitigate
verbEtymology From out- + litigate.
1
To defeat in litigation.
- The film lays out how Mr. Gore, and the nation, missed a chance to find out for sure, partly through Mr. Gore’s own lack of nerve but mostly because the Democrats were outlitigated and outfoxed by a tougher, more sophisticated team of Republican lawyers and political consultants.2008 May 23, Alessandra Stanley, “Soothing or Salting Wounds From Election 2000”, in New York Times: