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outrun

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out⋅run

  [out-ruhn]
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–verb (used with object), -ran, -run, -run⋅ning.
1. to run faster or farther than.
2. to escape by or as if by running: They managed to outrun the police.
3. to exceed; excel; surpass.
Origin:
1520–30; out + run
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out·run   (out-rŭn')   
tr.v.   out·ran (-rān'), out·run, out·run·ning, out·runs

    1. To run faster than.

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

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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