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Verb: get the best
  1. Do better than or defeat, usually through no fault or weakness of the loser
    "Heart disease can get the best of us";
    - overcome

Derived forms: getting the best, got the best, gets the best

Type of: beat, beat out, crush, shell [US], trounce, vanquish