outrun

out- +‎ run

• Rhymes: -ʌn
• IPA^(key): /ˈaʊtɹʌn/

outrun (third-person singular simple present outruns, present participle outrunning, simple past outran, past participle outrun)

1. (transitive) To run faster than.

   Can a tiger outrun a lion?

2. (transitive) To exceed or overextend.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 164

     They will take care not to outrun their income. They will never be distressed for money.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 28

     […] as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

outrun (plural outruns)

1. (sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.

• outrun in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• outrun in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• run out, run-out, runout