outrun

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(out-rŭn') pronunciation
tr.v., -ran (-răn'), -run, -run·ning, -runs.
    1. To run faster than.
    2. To escape from: outrun one's creditors.
  1. To go beyond; exceed: "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch).

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verb

    To be greater or better than: best, better1, exceed, excel, outdo, outmatch, outshine, outstrip, pass, surpass, top, transcend. Informal beat. Idioms: go beyond, go one better. See big/small/amount.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - løbe fra, overgå

Nederlands (Dutch)
sneller lopen dan, overschrijden, afgelegen schaapsstal

Français (French)
v. tr. - (lit) distancer, (fig) dépasser

Deutsch (German)
v. - schneller laufen als

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξεπερνώ, αφήνω πίσω

Italiano (Italian)
superare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - ultrapassar, exceder, deixar para trás

Русский (Russian)
обогнать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - dejar atrás, correr más aprisa que, rebasar, sobrepasar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - springa om, undkomma, överträffa

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
超过, 逃脱

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 超過, 逃脫

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 달려서 이기다, 도가 지나치다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - …より速く走る, 走って…からのがれる, 範囲を超える, 得票数でしのぐ, 速く走る

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يفوقه سرعه في العدو‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮רץ יותר מהר מ-, הרחיק מעבר ל-, עבר על‬


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