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'surpass' => 'beat' #1042

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@jmccrae

Existing relation
oewn-01108050-v (Interlingual Index: i27124)
(v) surmount, surpass, exceed, outstrip, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform be or do something to a greater degree “her performance surpasses that of any other student I know” “She outdoes all other athletes” “This exceeds all my expectations” “This car outperforms all others in its class”

oewn-01104324-v (Interlingual Index: i27103)
(v) shell, beat, trounce, crush, beat out, 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”

Proposed change
Direction of hypernym relation seems incorrect

Motivation
The second sense refers to outdoing specifically in a competition so is a narrower meaning, but is given as the broader synset.

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