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outstrip

[ out-strip ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

, out·stripped, out·strip·ping.

to outdo; surpass; excel.
to outdo or pass in running or swift travel:
A car can outstrip the local train.
to get ahead of or leave behind in a race or in any course of competition.
to exceed:
a demand that outstrips the supply.

outstrip

/ ˌaʊtˈstrɪp /

First recorded in 1570–80; out- + strip ¹

The man in me knows how macho imaginings usually outstrip reality.

The speed of a good ambler in the paso portante is so great, that he will outstrip another horse at full gallop.

Since the Peace, the City has been very much augmented and embellished; so that there are few Towns that outstrip it.

It had survived the ravages of time; it had escaped the devastation of man, whose ravages outstrip those of time.

And Henry watched him disappear with a choking feeling that thus the nobleman was to outstrip him in life.

He is in hiding somewhere, for he knew well, black paynim as he is, that our horses' four legs could outstrip his two.

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