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Outrun

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To run faster than.

v. To escape from: outrun one's creditors.

v. To go beyond; exceed: "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence” ( Joseph Wood Krutch).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To run faster than the others.

v. To exceed or overextend.

n. The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To run past or beyond; run further or more swiftly than; overcome in running or racing; leave behind, as by superior speed; hence, to surpass in competition; outrival; get the better of.

To run so as to escape; escape by or as by running; hence, to elude.

To pass beyond the bounds of; exceed: as, to allow zeal to outrun discretion.

To run out.

n. An outlying pasture or run for cattle or sheep.

n. The result of a calculation; amount or outcome of an estimate.

n. That which runs out; outpour.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. run faster than

Word Usage

"You just - if you made bad loans, if you could double and triple the volume of loans that you were making, then, you know, you could kind of outrun your, quote, unquote, "mistakes.""

Verb Form

outran outrunning outruns

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

run

Cross Reference

to outrun the constable

Variant

outran outrunning

Form

outran outrunning

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

outstrip

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

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