Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surpass in speed or velocity; outstrip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To excel in speed.
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- verb transitive To
exceed inspeed orvelocity ;outstrip .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was confident that he could outspeed her, and his dive, far and flat, entered him in the water twenty feet beyond her entrance.
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The Phliasians escorted their retreating foes a little way up the steep, and then turning off dashed along the road beside the walls, making for the Pellenians and those with them; whereupon the Theban, perceiving the haste of the Phliasians, began racing with his infantry to outspeed them and bring succour to the Pellenians.
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She — to whom the heart was such vieux jeu; who had learned, as she thought, to control or outspeed emotions!
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Thus might they outspeed the tales of their coming, surprising the demons and their human servants.
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This time their load was hardly worth calling one so far as weight was concerned, and four of the boys piled in, to row the boats across, nearly capsizing the whole arrangement in their efforts to outspeed each other.
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Thy barb, whose hoofs outspeed the tempest's flight, 5
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He was confident that he could outspeed her, and his dive, far and flat, entered him in the water twenty feet beyond her entrance.
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The stream runneth fast, but my will shall outspeed it.
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There was no crime black enough, no desertion, no cruelty horrible enough to outspeed her pity.
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He ordered all press of sail, and with the winds whistling through the rigging and the little ship straining to the smashing seas, did his best to outspeed disease, sighting the long line of surf-washed Aleutian Islands in September, coasting from headland to headland, keeping well offshore for fear of reefs till the end of the month, when compelled to turn in to the mid-bay of Oonalaska for water.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward
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