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outpace, v.|aʊtˈpeɪs|
[out- 14, 18.]
†1. intr. To pass or go out. Obs. rare.
1572Gascoigne Hearbes, Voy. Holland Wks. (1587) 167 The number cannot from my mind outpace.
2. trans. To outwalk or outrun, to exceed in speed; to outstrip in any race or rivalry.
1611Panegyr. Verses in Coryat's Crudities, A worke..that doth all other workes out-pace A furlong at the least. 1798W. Sotheby tr. Wieland's Oberon (1826) I. 61 Yet will thy heart at times thy head outpace. 1877Clery Minor Tactics ii. 37 The enemy followed at full speed..but were outpaced. |