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outdistances

outdistances is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outdistance.

Meaning of outdistance

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

Questions about outdistances

What is outdistances the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outdistances is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outdistance.

Words near outdistances in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outdistances (page history and authors); outdistance (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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