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outran
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outran
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Chronically underfunded and overspending, development costs always outran returns.
▪ Fleet-footed young men were always arriving to race with her and she always outran them.
▪ Once again, however, the ability of politicians and economists to conceptualise well outran their inclination to examine and analyse practical implications.
▪ The bull outran him and beat him with a club, and when the hobo went down, he stayed down.
▪ The chancery had returned to Carolingian practices, but with an energy which outran its model.
▪ The reason is quite clear - desire outran performance by eleven years.
▪ Used to moving fast on jobs, Fitzgerald took to his heels and outran the bees over a couple of hundred yards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outran
Outrun \Out*run"\, v. t. [imp. Outran; p. p. Outrun; p. pr. & vb. n. Outrunning.] To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.
Your zeal outruns my wishes.
--Sir W.
Scott.
The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to
the sepulcher.
--John xx. 4.
Wiktionary
outran
vb. (en-simple past of: outrun)
WordNet
outrun
v. run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"
[also: outrunning, outran]
outran
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