outstrips

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.

   Synonyms:

   overgo, overhaul, overtake

2. (figuratively, transitive) To exceed or surpass (someone or something).
   • This year’s production has already outstripped last year’s.

   Synonyms:

   outdo, transcend, exceed, excel, forpass, go beyond, breach, cap, outreach, outcompass

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