outgunned

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of outgun

adj

1. Having insufficient guns compared to the enemy.

   “The fighters were hugely outgunned by the regular army.”

   “The opposite is true, said Dulcie Flaherty, executive director of the Montgomery County Lands Trust: "We are very outgunned. We need to have funding […]”

   “They greatly extended the battlefield and made the 6-pounder even more outgunned in action.”

   “Cockrell's men, becoming more outgunned with every passing minute, finally retreated back over the ridge and re-formed, supported by a Mississippi regiment.”

2. (figuratively)Up against formidable adverse circumstances or (especially) adversarial forces.

   “Near-synonyms: outmatched, in too deep, out of one's depth, over one's head”