Definition of Outdistancing

1. Verb. (present participle of outdistance) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outdistancing

1. outdistance [v] - See also: outdistance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outdistancing

outdelivered
outdelivering
outdelivers
outdent
outdented
outdenting
outdents
outdesign
outdesigned
outdesigning
outdesigns
outdid
outdistance
outdistanced
outdistances
outdistancing
outdo
outdodge
outdodged
outdodges
outdodging
outdoer
outdoers
outdoes
outdoing
outdone
outdoor
outdoor(a)
outdoor education
outdoor game

Literary usage of Outdistancing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. White Fang by Jack London (1906)
"It was vain to think of One Ear so outdistancing his pursuers as to be able to cut across their circle in advance of them and to regain the sled. ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... dealers: The buyer for one of the largest jobbing houses wrote us it was their best seller, "outdistancing its nearest competitor by about 40 per cent. ..."

3. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"... should be admired and imitated in Shakespeare, Germany was rapidly outdistancing France as the real leader of continental appreciation of Shakespeare. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Three great fields have opened up in the Rockies, outdistancing the great Lake deposits. In 1913 the Arizona production was ..."

5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1906)
"... being about 25 years of Age (& the Duke's about 45), got it with ease, outdistancing the Duke's near half a Mile. They both ran naked, there being not ..."

6. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1908)
"... and twisting the simple story into impossible phantasmagoria, far outdistancing the poetical but not grotesque imagery of the Arabian Nights. ..."

7. The British Journal of Psychology by British Psychological Society (1913)
"Whereas comedy tends to under- distance, melodrama suffers from outdistancing. For a cultivated audience its overcharged idealism, the crude opposition of ..."

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