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outbrake

outbrake verb: to brake late in order to get an advantage over.

Verb

outbrake (third-person singular simple present outbrakes, present participle outbraking, simple past and past participle outbraked)

  1. (transitive) To brake late in order to get an advantage over.
    • Westbrook was able to outbrake Bruni's Ferrari entering the first turn of the final lap and hold the lead.
    • We had to go through it but there was a choice of just where, so I outbraked Tim to get the best line I could, and then I outbraked myself as well.2014, Don Simpson, Too Old for Motor Racing: A Short Story in Case I Didn’t Live Long Enough to Finish Writing a Longer One
  2. (transitive) From a given speed, to stop in a shorter distance than.

Forms of outbrake

third-person singular presentoutbrakes
present participleoutbraking
past participleoutbraked
pastoutbraked

Words formed from outbrake

Questions about outbrake

What does outbrake mean?
Outbrake means to brake late in order to get an advantage over.
What part of speech is outbrake?
Outbrake is a verb.
What is the past tense of outbrake?
The past tense of outbrake is outbraked.

Words near outbrake in the dictionary

  1. outbrags
  2. outbrain
  3. outbrained
  4. outbraining
  5. outbrains
  6. outbrake
  7. outbrake oneself
  8. outbraked
  9. outbraked oneself
  10. outbrakes
  11. outbrakes oneself

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