raced

Verb (1)

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

1. (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
   • The drivers were racing around the track.
2. (transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
   • I raced him to the car, but he was there first, so he got to ride shotgun.
3. (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
   • As soon as it was time to go home, he raced for the door.

   Synonyms:

   rush, shift, zip, zoom

4. (intransitive) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
   • "My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with the work for which it was built."1891 December, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Man with the Twisted Lip”, in The Strand

Verb (2)

race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)

1. To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
   • To be raced as black in the U.S. translates symbolically into being considered inferior to whites, lazy, immoral, boisterous, violent, and sexually promiscuous.1996, Philosophical Studies in Education, page 151
2. (obsolete) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
   • D'Hervieux obſerves that it is uſual to put the female canary bird to the male goldfinch, linnet, or the like, to breed; but for his part, he ſhould chuſe to put the male canary-bird to the female goldfinch, linnet, &c. becauſe the male uſually races more than the female, i. e. the young ones take...1738 [1728], Ephraim Chambers, “Race”, in Cyclopaedia: Or, An Universal Dictionary Of Arts and Sciences, 2nd edition, London: D. Midwinter

   Synonyms:

   come true, breed true

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