outstrip

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • 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.
2. 2

   To exceed or surpass (someone or something).

   • This year’s production has already outstripped last year’s.
   • Death and deſtruction dogge thee at the heeles, / Thy Mothers name is ominous to children, / If thou wilt outſtrip death, go croſſe the ſeas, / And liue with Richmond, from the reach of hell, […]
3. 3

   To exceed or overstep (a boundary or limit)

   To exceed or overstep (a boundary or limit); to transgress.

   • 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.
   • Still, he thought that if Roy happened to expand his kingdom, outstripping that self-imposed nickname of his, it'd be nice to have the man on his list.

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