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Outstrip

//ˌaʊtˈstɹɪp// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind. transitive

    "We quickly outstripped the amateur runners."

  2. 2
    be or do something to a greater degree wordnet
  3. 3
    To exceed or surpass (someone or something). figuratively, transitive

    "This year’s production has already outstripped last year’s."

  4. 4
    go far ahead of wordnet
  5. 5
    To exceed or overstep (a boundary or limit); to transgress. archaic, rare, transitive

    "Therefore Gentlemen, / And kinde Spectators, if I haue out-ſtript / An old mans gratuitie, or ſtrict canon, thinke / What a yong Wife, and a good Brayne may doe: / Stretch Ages truth ſometimes, and crack it too."

Etymology

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

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