outstrip

Definition

To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.

Etymology

From out- (prefix forming verbs with the sense of exceeding or surpassing) + strip (“(obsolete) to move or pass by quickly”).

Example Sentences

• "We quickly outstripped the amateur runners."
• "And leaſt that I in telling of my tale may longer bee, / Than they in ronning of their race, outſtripped quight was shée. / And he that wan her, marying her enioyd her for his fée."
• "The Savages pursued, some of them came up to him, he beat them off, outstript the rest, ran into the sea, and swam off to the boat."