Definition of Outrun

1. Verb. Run faster than. "Sam cannot outrun Sue "; "In this race, I managed to outran everybody else"

Generic synonyms: Run

Definition of Outrun

1. v. t. To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.

Definition of Outrun

1. Verb. To run faster than the others. ¹

2. Verb. To exceed or overextend. ¹

3. Noun. (context: sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outrun

1. to run faster than [v -RAN, -RUNNING, -RUNS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outrun

outroops
outroot
outrooted
outrooting
outroots
outrope
outroper
outropers
outropes
outros
outrove
outrow
outrowed
outrowing
outrows
outrun (current term)
outrung
outrunner
outrunners
outrunning
outruns
outrush
outrushed
outrushes
outrushing
outs
outsaid
outsail
outsailed
outsailing

Literary usage of Outrun

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

1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Economic problems have outrun political capacity for dealing with them, 463. § 1. Attempts at combination and monopoly are as old as industry. ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Dryden, in his Absalom and Achitophel. alludes to Pordage under the name of Mephi- bosheth : — " Some in my speedy pace I must outrun, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1872)
"Except in these few particulars, in which it seems to us that Mr. Ailing- ham's zeal has outrun his judgment, his book impresses us, as we have already said ..."

4. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1919)
"The victorious Russians had outrun their guns and their supplies, the routed Austrians had retired upon guns and German reinforcements; a balance had ..."

5. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly, United States Congress Senate (1873)
"At its head is a gentleman whose reputation as a statesman, in other departments of government, has outrun the limits of his own country, and gone forth to ..."

6. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"Yea, they suspected, lest those who formerly had outrun the canons with their additional conformity, ..."

7. The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources by Francis Bowen (1859)
"Practically, then, the experience of the last thousand years has proved, that subsistence has a " tendency " to outrun ..."

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