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Outstrip   /aʊtstrˈɪp/   Listen
verb
Outstrip  v. t.  (past & past part. outstripped; pres. part. outstripping)  
1.
To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behind. "Appetites which... had outstripped the hours." "He still outstript me in the race."
2.
To exceed in development or performance; to surpass in any competition; to outdo; to outpace (2).





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"Outstrip" Quotes from Famous Books



... eminence to the north of the village of Bergen, Champe was descried not more than half a mile in front. Resembling an Indian in his vigilance, the sergeant at the same moment discovered Middleton and his men, to whose object he was no stranger, and giving spur to his horse, he determined to outstrip them. Middleton, at the same instant, put his horses to the top of their speed; and being, as the legion all were, well acquainted with the country, he recollected a route through the woods to the bridge below Bergen, which diverged from the great road near the Three Pigeons. ...
— Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea • James O. Brayman
... say which comes first: they come up hand in hand, and are so small when we can first descry them, that it is impossible to say which we first caught sight of. All we can now see is that each has a tendency continually to outstrip the other by a little, but by a very little only. Strictly they are not two things, but two aspects of one thing; for convenience sake, however, we ...
— Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino • Samuel Butler
... by these representatives of the Tryon County militia to hold in military formation during the march, each man trying to outstrip his neighbor, as if this advance upon a foe of superior strength could have no more serious consequences than that some might be left behind, and when one of the company came up to my side with words of complaint ...
— The Minute Boys of the Mohawk Valley • James Otis
... trees shoot up straight towards the sun, each one seeming to strive to outstrip the other; but a thick and even more ambitious undergrowth of plants twine round their trunks and enclose them in a tenacious embrace, then twisting, and creeping, amongst the spreading boughs, reach and cover the highest ...
— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti
... a fictitious one—one that Joseph had set down upon the spur of the moment, his intention being to send a messenger that should outstrip Sir Crispin, and warn ...
— The Tavern Knight • Rafael Sabatini


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