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outrace

outrace verb: to travel faster than another in a competitive event.

Verb

outrace (third-person singular simple present outraces, present participle outracing, simple past and past participle outraced)

  1. (transitive) To travel faster than another in a competitive event.

Forms of outrace

third-person singular presentoutraces
present participleoutracing
past participleoutraced
pastoutraced

Origin of outrace

From out- + race.

Questions about outrace

What does outrace mean?
Outrace means to travel faster than another in a competitive event.
What part of speech is outrace?
Outrace is a verb.
What is the past tense of outrace?
The past tense of outrace is outraced.

Words near outrace in the dictionary

  1. outquibbling
  2. outquote
  3. outquoted
  4. outquotes
  5. outquoting
  6. outrace
  7. outraced
  8. outraces
  9. outracing
  10. outrack
  11. outracks

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