Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To run faster than.
- transitive verb To escape from.
- transitive verb To go beyond; exceed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To run past or beyond; run further or more swiftly than; overcome in running or racing; leave behind, as by superior speed; hence, to surpass in competition; outrival; get the better of.
- To run so as to escape; escape by or as by running; hence, to elude.
- To pass beyond the bounds of; exceed: as, to allow zeal to outrun discretion.
- To run out.
- noun An outlying pasture or run for cattle or sheep.
- noun The result of a calculation; amount or outcome of an estimate.
- noun That which runs out; outpour.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed, or leave behind, in running; to run faster than; to outstrip; to go beyond.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
run faster than theothers . - verb To
exceed or overextend. - noun The
sheepdog 's initialrun towards thesheep , done in a curving motion so as not tostartle them.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb run faster than
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Examples
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You just - if you made bad loans, if you could double and triple the volume of loans that you were making, then, you know, you could kind of outrun your, quote, unquote, "mistakes."
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He lived out in de edge of de woods; and when dey knocked on de door he jumped out at a back window in his night clothes wid his pants in his hands an 'outrun' em.
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
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You just - if you made bad loans, if you could double and triple the volume of loans that you were making, then, you know, you could kind of outrun your, quote, unquote, "mistakes."
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
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Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW".
Fast Lane Daily - Auto News. Fast Cars. Fast and Fresh. Every day. 2010
travismcdermott commented on the word outrun
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August 1, 2008