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outdistance

outdistance verb: to run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.

Verb

outdistance (third-person singular simple present outdistances, present participle outdistancing, simple past and past participle outdistanced)

  1. (transitive) To run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.
    • He could not long outdistance such a runner as the Bishop, whose tremendous strides would surely overhaul him in the end.1922, Christopher Morley, chapter 12, in Where the Blue Begins

outdistance meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

outdistance in Tamil

மிக முந்திச் செல், மிகப் பின்னால் தங்கிவிடச்செய்

outdistance in Malayalam

മത്സരത്തിൽ വളരെ പുറകെ ആക്കുക

outdistance in Kannada

ಹಿಂದೆಹಾಕು, ಹಿಂದೆ ಹಾಕು, ಮುಂದಾಗು, ಮೀರಿಸು, ಬಹುದೂರ ಮುಂದೆ ಹೋಗು, ಸಾಗು

Synonyms of outdistance

Forms of outdistance

third-person singular presentoutdistances
present participleoutdistancing
past participleoutdistanced
pastoutdistanced

Origin of outdistance

From out- + distance.

Questions about outdistance

What does outdistance mean?
Outdistance means to run farther or faster than another, or to finish a race with a large margin.
What is outdistance in Tamil?
Outdistance in Tamil is மிக முந்திச் செல், மிகப் பின்னால் தங்கிவிடச்செய். See Outdistance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is outdistance?
Outdistance is a verb.
What is the past tense of outdistance?
The past tense of outdistance is outdistanced.

Words near outdistance in the dictionary

  1. outdins
  2. outdirect
  3. outdirected
  4. outdirecting
  5. outdirects
  6. outdistance
  7. outdistanced
  8. outdistances
  9. outdistancing
  10. outdive
  11. outdived

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outdistance (page history and authors); outdistance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outdistance (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outdistance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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