Outrun meaning

out-rŭn'
To go beyond; exceed.
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To run faster than.
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To escape from.

Outrun one's creditors.

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To run faster, farther, or better than.
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To exceed.
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To escape (a pursuer) by or as by running.
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To run faster than the others.
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To exceed or overextend.
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(sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
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Sentence Examples

  • We can't outrun him.

  • The railway still delivered 30,000 men a month at Mukden, and Japan had for a time outrun her resources.

  • She couldn't outrun it - in any condition, and it could climb a tree as fast as she could.

  • makes the charge more and more infusible; and this progressive rise of the melting-point of the charge must not be allowed to outrun the actual rise of temperature, or in other words the charge must always be kept molten, because once solidified it is very hard to remelt.

  • Her gaze tried to outrun the headlights and then followed the broken line on the highway as it leaped from the dark and shot forward, disappearing under the truck.

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