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if an emotion or feeling gets the better of you, it is too strong for you to control and it makes you do something that you did not intend to do
Smith's anger got the better of him once again, and he started to attack the referee.
to defeat someone in a game, argument etc
Djokovic finally got the better of Murray in a hard-fought match.
