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Outmarch

Outmarch \Out*march"\, v. t. To surpass in marching; to march faster than, or so as to leave behind.

Wiktionary
outmarch

vb. (context transitive English) To surpass in marching; to march further or faster than.

WordNet
outmarch

v. march longer distances and for a longer time than; "This guy can outmarch anyone!"

Usage examples of "outmarch".

Auguste Marmont, son of an ironmaster, had outmanoeuvred the Englishman, outmarched him, and all that had to be done now was to outrun him to Portugal.

The attack on the village was supposed to do no more than pin down the British rearguard while the French left, safe in the knowledge that their foes had already marched, were now eagerly trying to outmarch them.

Shall we try to outmarch him and approach Washington from the north and west, as we did last year?

One was to outmarch the converging Federals, gain interior lines along the Valley, and defeat them there in detail.

He could outswear the sergeants, outmarch the Rifles and outfight any man in green or scarlet.

They were cheerfully confident that they would outmarch or outrun as well as outfight any soldiers coming after them.

He had proved, too, that his army could outmarch the British for, although they had already made a march of some distance, when the race began, he had gained ground throughout the day, in spite of the efforts of the British to keep abreast of him.

On 19 October Sir John French was still hoping that Haig could outflank the Germans at Ghent, and the presence of the Kaiser on the coast a few days later suggests that his generals still cherished the idea of an outmarch rather than a break-through.

Now, if we try to outmarch them, they will catch us in the woods and shoot every one of us before we can get to Ernee.

With that royal British stride of hers and those elbows she can outmarch the lot of us.

Canim battlepacks could often outmarch even the Legions in the field, unless the Alerans countered their natural speed by using the roads to lend speed and endurance to their troops.

He could outmarch, outrun, outjump and outfight any man in his cohort at any time of the day or night.

Even now, our ships are gathering in the Outmarches, probing the Neutral Zone for reasons to attack the Federation before they attack us.

So we cross our space from the Wide back to the Outmarches, and we start watching the Federation, looking for reasons to bite into their space again.

No battle, which meant that the French had outmarched Wellington again, that the armies were getting nearer to the city, and that perhaps the time when Sharpe would have to leave Salamanca was getting closer.