Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb get_the_best

1 sense of get the best

Sense 1
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")
       => 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")