outride
Americanverb (used with object)
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to outdo or outstrip in riding.
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(of a ship) to come safely through (a storm) by lying to.
verb (used without object)
noun
verb
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to outdo by riding faster, farther, or better than
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(of a vessel) to ride out (a storm)
noun
Etymology
Origin of outride
Example Sentences
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Salvent suggests taking a taillight and headlight, should you outride daylight.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
There was some outride risk going into the weekend that some countries like the Netherlands and Finland weren’t going to go ahead with the bailout, but they decided to give Greece the cash.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 21, 2012
It was a bitter blow to the proud 18th Century shipbuilders of Britain and the U. S. to discover that the cliff-sided, lattice-sailed junks of China could outride a typhoon that would dismast a frigate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Such a man, given a good plane and motor, can outride almost any gale.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She was very careful not to try to outride the foreman, or to perform any of her marvels of horsemanship.
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
Frontier market stocks have outridden a slump in broader emerging markets this year, with help from long-term investors.
From Reuters ● Nov. 6, 2013
Last week, tired, grimy, grinning, the same two men returned to the Pulitzer Building in brown canvas flying suits, crouching in automobiles outridden by staccato police motorcycles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And Villa’s horsemen had outridden and outlasted our town boys.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Could they have outridden the gelding to such an extent as that?
From Way of the Lawless by Max Brand
My position was dreadful, for I had outridden my pilot, my struggling steed was momentarily sinking lower, and the shades of evening were fast closing in.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert
Yeoh got on a plane to meet with Poon, and the next day she was shooting a wristwatch commercial with Jackie Chan, outbiking and outriding him through a lakeside landscape.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
He rode a Maryland Hunt Cup-winning horse to victory in England’s Grand National in 1980 — the commentator sputtering in shock to see an “American banker” outriding Britain’s professional jockeys.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2015
But in one of these clubs of late, George Kellman, owner of the New Art Gallery, saw suddenly before his face a canvas showing four horsemen outriding a blizzard.
From Time Magazine Archive
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These outriding half feet or hangers are marked by a loop underneath them, and plenty of them will be found.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
Rowels and quirts were plied with energy and will, as we tore down the river-bank, making a gradual circle until the second bottoms were reached, outriding the flood by a close margin.
From The Outlet by Andy Adams
“Not too many people outrode Shoemaker,” said the trainer Tom Proctor, whose father, Willard, trained Convenience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2015
“I outrode him on the bike, from my point of view.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2011
They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But measurements show that Dawes outrode Revere by two miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And in it all was his own father, the second Macon Dead, their contemporary, who was strong as an ox, could ride bareback and barefoot, who, they agreed, outran, outplowed, outshot, outpicked, outrode them all.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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