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outstripping

outstripping is the present participle and gerund of outstrip.

Meaning of outstrip

Verb

outstrip (third-person singular simple present outstrips, present participle outstripping, simple past and past participle outstripped or outstript)

  1. (transitive) To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.
    • We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To exceed or surpass (someone or something).
    • This year’s production has already outstripped last year’s.
  3. (archaic, rare, transitive) To exceed or overstep (a boundary or limit); to transgress.
    • Therefore Gentlemen, / And kinde Spectators, if I haue out-ſtript / An old mans gratuitie, or ſtrict canon, thinke / What a yong Wife, and a good Brayne may doe: / Stretch Ages truth ſometimes, and crack it too.1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, Act V, scene v

Noun

outstripping (plural outstrippings)

  1. The act or process of something being outstripped.
    • And these outstrippings and outmodings, they assert, were necessary and desirable, considering the internal limitations of the lyric form.1994, Herbert A. Leibowitz, Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry in Review, page 320

Forms of outstripping

pluraloutstrippings

Questions about outstripping

What does outstripping mean?
Outstripping means the act or process of something being outstripped.
What is outstripping the present participle and gerund of?
Outstripping is the present participle and gerund of outstrip.
What part of speech is outstripping?
Outstripping is a noun.
What is the plural of outstripping?
The plural of outstripping is outstrippings.

Words near outstripping in the dictionary

  1. outstripped
  2. outstripper
  3. outstrippers
  4. outstrippest
  5. outstrippeth
  6. outstripping
  7. outstrippings
  8. outstrips
  9. outstript
  10. outstrode
  11. outstroke

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