outrun
/ˈaʊtɹʌn/
outrun verb: to run faster than.
Verb
outrun (third-person singular simple present outruns, present participle outrunning, simple past outran, past participle outrun)
- To run faster than.
- Can a tiger outrun a lion?
- I don't need to outrun the bear; I just need to outrun you.
- To exceed or overextend.
- They will take care not to outrun their income. They will never be distressed for money.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
- […] as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
Noun
outrun (plural outruns)
- In ski jumping, the flat or uphill area past the landing point, where the skier can slow down.
- The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
- A piece of outlying grazing land on an arable farm.
outrun meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
outrun in Urdu
- فائق ہونا, جواز کرنا, سبقت لے جانا
outrun in Malayalam
- outdistance, run faster than, outstrip
- ഓട്ടത്തിൽ പിന്നിലാക്കുക, മുമ്പേകടന്നോടുക, എതിരാളിയേക്കാൾ വേഗത്തിലോടുക, പുറകിലാക്കുക, വളരെ പുറകെ ആക്കുക, അതിലംഘിക്കുക
outrun in Kannada
- ಹಿಂದೆಹಾಕು, ಮುಂದೆ ಓಡು, ಮೀರು
Examples of outrun in a sentence
- He calls himself a sprinter? I could outrun him any day of the week!
- The pilot pushed over into a dive to try to outrun the enemy fighters.
- It were a woodly country and de boy outrun he chasers.
Forms of outrun
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | outruns |
| present participle | outrunning |
| past | outran |
| past participle | outrun |
| Noun | |
| plural | outruns |
Origin of outrun
From out- + run.
Words formed from outrun
Words that rhyme with outrun
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- rerun
- stun
- nun
- shun
- 'un
- Gunn
- jump the gun
- none
- overdone
- begun
- dun
- fun
- hon
- pun
- speedrun
- thon
- undone
- unspun
- verdun
- winter sun
- 1
- 101
- 26+6=1
- cun
- dun dun dun
- everyone
- hard-won
- have one's mind about one
- hot cross bun
- marble run
- misdone
- mun
- Munn
- old one
- one hundred and one
- one thousand and one
- organ gun
- outdone
- outgun
- over and done
- quaker gun
- redone
- respun
- rewon
- snatch and run
- spun
- steam gun
- temperature gun
Questions about outrun
- What does outrun mean?
- Outrun means to run faster than.
- What is outrun in Urdu?
- Outrun in Urdu is فائق ہونا, جواز کرنا, سبقت لے جانا. See Outrun meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is outrun?
- Outrun can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce outrun?
- Outrun is pronounced /ˈaʊtɹʌn/.
- What is the past tense of outrun?
- The past tense of outrun is outran.
Words near outrun in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: outrun (page history and authors); outrun (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outrun (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); outrun (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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