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get the best
verb
overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome (Freq. 1)
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Heart disease can get the best of us

Syn: ↑have the best, ↑overcome
Hypernyms: ↑beat, ↑beat out, ↑crush, ↑shell, ↑trounce, ↑vanquish
Verb Frames:
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Something ——s somebody

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Somebody ——s PP

(for: ↑have the best)
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Somebody ——s PP


Useful english dictionary. 2012.