Usually means: Exceeding speed to escape something.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word outrunning:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. outrunning: Merriam-Webster
  2. outrunning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. outrunning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. outrunning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Outrunning, outrunning: Wordnik
  6. outrunning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. outrunning: Wiktionary
  8. Outrunning, outrunning: Dictionary.com
  9. outrunning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Outrunning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Outrunning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. outrunning: FreeDictionary.org
  13. outrunning: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (outrun)

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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