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# outstrip

«outstrip» in Mova's school dictionary: **to go faster than them and leave them behind** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (outstrip, outstrips, outstripped, outstripping)

### meaning for a pupil

To outstrip someone is to go faster than them and leave them behind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outstrip/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

fast animals or runners leave others far behind in a race

### examples

- The hare outstrips the tortoise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outstrip/#x1)
- She outstripped the wind as she ran home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outstrip/#x2)
- He outstripped the others in the race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outstrip/#x3)

### note

in a race it shows how far ahead one is, so the gap is found by subtracting

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outstrip» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outstrip/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.