OUTSTRIP (outstripped, outstripping)

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Irregular inflected forms: outstripped    , outstripping   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does outstrip mean? 

• OUTSTRIP (verb)
  The verb OUTSTRIP has 2 senses:

1. be or do something to a greater degree

2. go far ahead of

  Familiarity information: OUTSTRIP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTSTRIP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outstrip    ... he / she / it outstrips   
Past simple: outstripped   
Past participle: outstripped   
-ing form: outstripping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be or do something to a greater degree

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass

Context example:

This car outperforms all others in its class

Hypernyms (to "outstrip" is one way to...):

beat; beat out; crush; shell; trounce; vanquish (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "outstrip"):

better; break (surpass in excellence)

outwear (last longer than others)

outmarch (march longer distances and for a longer time than)

shame (surpass or beat by a wide margin)

outfox (outdo someone in trickery)

out-herod (surpass someone in cruelty or evil)

outbrave (be braver than)

outweigh (be heavier than)

outrange (have a greater range than (another gun))

outshine (attract more attention and praise than others)

beat; circumvent; outfox; outsmart; outwit; overreach (beat through cleverness and wit)

outpace (surpass in speed)

outsell (be sold more often than other, similar products)

outsell (sell more than others)

outdraw (draw a gun faster, or best someone in a gunfight)

outsail (sail faster or better than)

outroar (roar louder than)

outcry; outshout (shout louder than)

outgrow (grow faster than)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Go far ahead of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

distance; outdistance; outstrip

Context example:

He outdistanced the other runners

Hypernyms (to "outstrip" is one way to...):

leave behind (depart and not take along)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I ran the same way, outstripping a good many, and soon came facing the wild sea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He fairly outstripped himself in willingness and civility; he was all smiles to everyone.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They soon outstripped the others, and when they had reached the carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were half a quarter of a mile behind.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Jo drew a long breath and unclasped her hands as she watched the poor fellow trying to outstrip the trouble which he carried in his heart.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The Tilneys, they, by whom, above all, she desired to be favourably thought of, outstripped even her wishes in the flattering measures by which their intimacy was to be continued.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous and independent denizens.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Bingley and Jane, however, soon allowed the others to outstrip them.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“So my son took, of his own will, and on no compulsion, to the course in which he can always, when it is his pleasure, outstrip every competitor,” she pursued.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)