Usually means: Exceeded others' speed in race.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. outran: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. outran: Merriam-Webster
  3. outran: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. outran: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. outran: Collins English Dictionary
  6. outran: Vocabulary.com
  7. outran: Wordnik
  8. outran: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. outran: Wiktionary
  10. outran: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Outran, outran: Dictionary.com
  12. outran: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Outran: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Outran: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. outran: FreeDictionary.org
  16. outran: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. outran: Legal dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To run faster than.
verb:  (transitive) To exceed or overextend.
noun:  (skiing) In ski jumping, the flat or uphill area past the landing point, where the skier can slow down.
noun:  (sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
noun:  (farming, Scottish) A piece of outlying grazing land on an arable farm.
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