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Definition of Outraced
1. outrace [v] - See also: outrace
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outraced
Literary usage of Outraced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"Average values for the above durations which represent the intervals in minutes
by •which the preliminary tremors have outraced the second phase of motion ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"Thus the sound apparently outraced the shock in the direction of the major axis,
but not in that of the minor axis. These time-relations of the sound and ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"By his applications of natural laws he has"outraced the quadruped on the land
and the fish in the sea," and the conclusion from the analogy and nature of ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"... And the swallow outraced the racing wave, Up from the lonely, outcast grave
Sprouted a lily, straight and high, Such as She bears to whom men cry, ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1874)
"... swim in the water, bu he cannot; nor has he yet invented a means by which
flying is ble. By his applications of natural laws he has "outraced the qu; ..."
6. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1897)
"... soon associated with the crew ; and, when the Trost entered the harbour of
Copenhagen, they outraced the sailors up the stays to take in the topsail. ..."
7. The Annual Register (1895)
"... had defeated the Britannia four times, and had been outraced by her twice.
3C. The Abbe Bruneau, who had been a cure in the Mayenne, guillotined at ..."
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