verbWord forms: -drives, -driving, -drove or -driven
1. (transitive)
to exceed or outdo in driving
2. (transitive) golf
to drive (a golf ball) further than
3. (transitive) archaic
to drive out or remove
4. (intransitive)
to burst forth
outdrive in American English
(ˈautˌdraiv)
adjective or noun
Nautical
inboard-outboard
Word origin
[out- + drive]out- is a prefixal use of the adverb out, occurring in various senses in compounds (outcast; outcome; outside), and serving also to form many transitive verbs denoting a going beyond, surpassing,or outdoing in the particular action indicated (outbid; outdo; outgeneral; outlast; outstay; outrate)