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outmarch

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[aut-mahrch] / ˌaʊtˈmɑrtʃ /

verb (used with object)

  1. to march faster or farther than.


Etymology

Origin of outmarch

First recorded in 1640–50; out- + march 1


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Sherman was very anxious that his men should outmarch the Easterners; but he led the column, would not turn his head to look.

From Time Magazine Archive

They began to respect the men who could outmarch them and outlive them on the range.

From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Emerson Hough

"Well," he said, "we have now to outmarch Herrero, and there is a good deal to be done."

From Long Odds by Harold Bindloss

"Ay, I am that foolish whyles; but I shall be a sick, weak body, when I can't outmarch the worst of them."

From A Knight of the Nets by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Neither army being able to outmarch the other, both drew up masses of pikes in parallel lines.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

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