outstript
outstript is the simple past and past participle of outstrip.
Meaning of outstrip
Verb
outstrip (third-person singular simple present outstrips, present participle outstripping, simple past and past participle outstripped or outstript)
- To move more quickly than (someone or something) so as to outrun or leave it behind.
- We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.
- To exceed or surpass (someone or something).
- This year’s production has already outstripped last year’s.
- 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
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