Definition of Outruns

1. Verb. (third-person singular of outrun) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Outruns

1. outrun [v] - See also: outrun

Lexicographical Neighbors of Outruns

outrope
outroper
outropers
outropes
outros
outrove
outrow
outrowed
outrowing
outrows
outrun
outrung
outrunner
outrunners
outrunning
outruns (current term)
outrush
outrushed
outrushes
outrushing
outs
outsaid
outsail
outsailed
outsailing
outsails
outsang
outsat
outsave
outsaved

Literary usage of Outruns

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

1. Forty-four Years of the Life of a Hunter: Being Reminiscences of Meshach by Meshach Browning, Edward Stabler (1859)
"Goes to Meadow Mountain with his son William, to hunt Bears —Chases an enormous Bear—It outruns the Dogs, and gets off—Finds another, and, to walk without ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1862)
"—the flood runs there with such great force, That I imagine it outruns a horse; And with a head some four foot high that rores, ..."

3. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"If that person is one who did not have intercourse with one who was born in the same clan, he outruns ..."

4. Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger: A Story of Frontier Reform by Albert Bigelow Paine (1909)
"... MEDAL FOR SPEED CAPTAIN BILL outruns A CRIMINAL AND WINS A GOLD MEDAL WE are not through with the Pan-handle, but we will relate here an incident which ..."

5. The Science of Ethics by Leslie Stephen (1907)
"... between that exquisite perception which outruns the more tangible tests and the perverted perception which is biassed by some individual peculiarity. ..."

6. Tales of the Colonies by John Howison (1830)
"But I perceive that you think my imagination outruns my judgement. However, we shall understand each other better by and by. Good night" VOL. II. ..."

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