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Defeat in a footrace
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outrun
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Word definitions for outrun in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Consumer demand has outrun our production capabilities. ▪ The fire was moving so fast you couldn't outrun it. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even though the university system grew rapidly, demand for places in some subjects began ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "to run out," from out (adv.) + run (v.). Sense of "to outstrip in running" is from 1520s; figurative use from 1650s. Related: Outran ; outrunning .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
OutRun is the debut studio album by French electronic musician Kavinsky , released on 22 February 2013. Production for the album was handled primarily by Kavinsky's close friend and fellow French electro house artist SebastiAn . The album is named after ...
Usage examples of outrun.
I am allowing my emotions to outrun my reason, it is only because my son was and still is the skipper of the Barracuda .
Langdon rocketed downward, on the edge of a billowing shroud of light, feeling like a surfer trying to outrun a thousand-foot tidal wave.
Not waiting to see if he obeyed, not needing to, she and Jorin went in search of Brier Iron-thorn, whom they found at the head of the main stairs, outrun by the fleeing Highborn.
I totter at a red hot half-a-mile an hour along lighted halls and Burnside generally outruns me.
Some word had come of your errand after your departure, so this same Horsford with the Mayor and one or two other Tantivies, whose zeal methinks outran their humanity, slipped the dogs upon your trail.
I can outrun, outjump, outshoot, outbrag, outdrink and outfight any man on both sides of the Mississippi from Pittsburgh to New Orleans!
They were cheerfully confident that they would outmarch or outrun as well as outfight any soldiers coming after them.
He could outmarch, outrun, outjump and outfight any man in his cohort at any time of the day or night.
We have guns sufficient to protect us against any light vessel that could catch us, and enough turn of speed to outrun or outpoint anything heavier.
He could not outswim the beast in the water, but perhaps he could outrun it on the weed?
New Republic, but in the process, they had hopped forward in time by four thousand years, zigzagging between the two planetless components of the binary system in an attempt to outrun any long-term surveillance that the Festival might have placed on them.
He could outrun them on open ground, but slives had a nasty tendency to remain on the trail of their prey, sometimes following for days, waiting for their target to sleep before moving in for the kill.
Now the spritsail topsail followed, while to ease her plunging they hauled up the mainsail, giving all the wind to her forecourse: she sailed easier yet, with no slackening in her pace, clearly outrunning the Dutchman, although he had shaken out his foretopsail reef.
The stilter could probably outrun the footed men, but not the blimp or the trucks.
Even with a pack, he told himself, the stinkard could easily outrun anyone in the company.