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outrode

outrode is the simple past of outride.

outrode is the obsolete form of outroad.

Meaning of outride

Verb

outride (third-person singular simple present outrides, present participle outriding, simple past outrode, past participle outridden)

  1. (transitive) To ride a horse, bicycle, etc. better than (someone); to surpass in riding.
  2. (transitive) To ride out (e.g. a storm).

See all 3 meanings of outride

Meaning of outroad

Noun

outroad (plural outroads)

  1. (obsolete) An excursion.
    • As he was speaking this, the perceived six hudred and threescore light horsemen, gallantly mounted, who made an outroad thither to see what ship it was that was newly arrived in the harbour, and came in a full gallop to take them if they had been able.1532, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
  2. (obsolete) A foray into an enemy's territory, especially a hostile attack.
    • The territory around this bay was held for a time by Keiani the Scot's sonnes, until they were driven out by Cuneda, the Cambro-Briton, and is now counted part of the inheritance of the Cutchy of Lancaster, byt the heires of Maurice of London, or De Londres, who, making an outroad hither out of...1844, William Beattie, The Castles and Abbeys of England, page 331
  3. A way out from a place or situation.
    • Things have calmed down since then, and we've accepted fairly pragmatically that neither approach makes a lick of sense, that synthesis is the necessary outroad.2005, Chris Gehman, Steve Reinke, The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema, page 237

Forms of outrode

pluraloutrodes

Questions about outrode

What is outrode the simple past of?
Outrode is the simple past of outride.

Words near outrode in the dictionary

  1. outroars
  2. outrock
  3. outrocked
  4. outrocking
  5. outrocks
  6. outrode
  7. outrodes
  8. outroduction
  9. outroductions
  10. outroductory
  11. outrogue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outrode (page history and authors); outride (page history and authors); outroad (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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