Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To leave behind; outrun.
- v. To exceed or surpass: "Material development outstripped human development” ( Edith Hamilton). See Synonyms at excel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behind.
- v. To exceed in development or performance; to surpass in any competition; to outdo; to outpace{2}.
WordNet 3.0
- v. be or do something to a greater degree
- v. go far ahead of
Examples
“In other words, I suggest that accomplishment may again outstrip expectations.”
“Divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd Platt said Mrs Rooney's income may in the long-term outstrip that of her husband, who earns an estimated £7 million a year from”
“Divorce lawyer Vanessa Lloyd Platt said Mrs Rooney's income may in the long-term outstrip that of her husband, who earns an estimated £7 million a year from Manchester United and his sponsors.”
“The first who shall make it his business to get himself into favour and esteem by those ways, I am much deceived if he do not and by the best title outstrip his competitors: force and violence can do something, but not always all.”
“The man rises from his state of prostrate surrender to join himself to the force of the wind," writes Irene H. Chayes, "master it — fulfilling his [Shelley's] boyhood ambition to 'outstrip' it (ll. 50-51) — and turn it into an instrument of his own.”
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'
“As for California, struggling to recover from the collapse in real estate, construction and retail: Cooper believes the private sector, led by high tech - including clean tech, in which he sees "huge opportunities"- will soon "outstrip" growth in the rest of the nation.”
“Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks photo: Creative Commons/Flickr upload bot”
WN.com - Articles related to Intuit app lets iPhones prepare US tax returns
“Technology changes 'outstrip' netbooks photo: Public Domain/MgCastellano”
“CIGS PV cells will eventually "outstrip" the baseline mc-Si cell in terms of conversion efficiency. ”
“European Pressphoto Agency The world community has increasingly responded to the crisis in the past few weeks, but the demand continues to outstrip what is provided.”
The Wall Street Journal: How America Leads the Fight Against Africa's Famine
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