outrun

[Out*runĀ·]

To outrun someone is to move faster than they do. Your lazy cat might enjoy hunting for mice, although the mice always seem to outrun him in the end.

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

Verb
run faster than; "in this race, I managed to outran everybody else"


p. p.
of Outrun

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


Outrun

Out*run" , v. t. [imp. Outran ; p. p. Outrun; p. pr. & vb. n. Outrunning.] To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.
Your zeal outruns my wishes.
The other disciple did outrun Peter, and came first to the sepulcher.

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

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Usage Examples

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

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