outstrip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From out- (prefix forming verbs with the sense of exceeding or surpassing) + strip (“(obsolete) to move or pass by quickly”).
Base: strip
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outstrips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outstripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: outstrip
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: outstrip
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: outstrip
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: outstrippest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: outstrippedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: outstrips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outstrippeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: outstrip
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: outstrip
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: outstrip
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: outstripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outstripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outstript
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
[…] Bingley, who wanted to be alone with Jane, proposed their all walking out. […] Bingley and Jane, however, soon allowed the others to outstrip them. They lagged behind, while Elizabeth, Kitty, and Darcy, were to entertain each other.
Roaring he calleth "sound," and a steed that high bloweth in running, he compareth to Eclipse, for he outstrippeth the wind.
There was a violent jostle between the remaining men. […] The MacQuern overtook Mr. Oover at St. Mary's and outstripped him in Radcliffe Square.
The wing outstripped Mark Cueto, but [Ben] Foden's excellent cover tackle killed the threat.
gloss: To exceed or surpass (someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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, […]
[A]s the eſtrich, the moſt burning ſighted bird of all others, inſomuch as the female of them hatcheth not her egs by couering them, but by the effectual rayes of her eyes, as he, I ſay, outſtrippeth the nimbleſt trippers of his feathered condition and^([sic – meaning in?]) footmanſhip, onely ſpurd on with the needle quickning goade vnder his ſide: ſo hee no leſſe burning ſighted than the eſtrich, ſpurde on to the race of honor by the ſweet rayes of his miſtres eyes, perſwaded himſelfe he ſhould outſtrip all other in running to the goale of glorie, only animated and incited by hir excellence.
[…] O Ferdinand, / Doe not ſmile at me, that I boaſt her of, / For thou ſhalt finde ſhe will out-ſtrip all praiſe / And make it halt, behinde her.
Thou art too hard for me in Love; / There is no dealing wᵗʰ Thee in that Art, / That is Thy Masterpeece, I see. / When I contrive and plott to prove / Something that may be conquest on my part, / Thou still, O Lord, outstrippest mee.
Thy zeal outstrippeth the limbs of a weary man, brother.
We shall not die, but live,—and, of his grace, we love! / For, in the mysteries of Mercy, the One fore-knowing Spirit / Outstrippeth reason's halting choice, and winneth men to Him: […]
[B]ut it is plain that this potent nation, which now for more than half an age has not only come up with, but outstript others in several things—but especially in the arts of war, intriguing, and taxing—has been far enough from having the same success in matters trade, and in designs to those more remote places of the world.
Thou, Surya, outstrippest all in speed; thou art visible to all; thou art the source of light; thou shinest throughout the entire firmament.
All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled.
With a population that has risen by over 25 per cent since 1940 to over 10m, Tokyo has now outstripped London as the world's largest city.
Like Christ, he comes as a physician ("I am he bringing help fo the sick as they pant on their backs"); and though he insists on visiting "strong upright men" as well, I find those visits as purely rhetorical as his questions to a too-self-satisfied reader: "Have you outstript the rest? Are you the President? / It is a trifle."
[Y]our baby can easily learn simple signs for objects, events, feelings, and needs. With these signs literally at your baby's fingertips, communication between you can flourish during that difficult time from about six to thirty months, when your baby's desire to communicate outstrips his capacity to say words.
[T]he average increase in insurance premiums over the last decade was 138 percent, far outstripping the rate of inflation and far outstripping, as you point out, the growth in wages and income.
Kim [Jong Il] was educated at the newly founded university in Pyongyang, named after his father [Kim Il Sung], graduating in 1964. The 1960s and early 1970s were the golden years for the DPRK. It undertook rapid industrialisation, economically outstripped its southern competitor, and enjoyed the support of both the People's Republic of China, and the Soviet Union.
It also singled out ten routes (all closed except Leeds-Bradford/Ilkley) to show how costs outstripped earnings, without mention of what through-journey revenue they generated for the main lines to which they were connected.
gloss: To exceed or overstep (a boundary or limit); to transgress.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
rare
transitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: outstripper
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