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outride

American  
[out-rahyd, out-rahyd] / ˌaʊtˈraɪd, ˈaʊtˌraɪd /

verb (used with object)

outrode, outridden, outriding
  1. to outdo or outstrip in riding.

  2. (of a ship) to come safely through (a storm) by lying to.


verb (used without object)

outrode, outridden, outriding
  1. to act as an outrider.

noun

  1. Prosody. an unaccented syllable or syllables added to a metrical foot, especially in sprung rhythm.

outride British  

verb

  1. to outdo by riding faster, farther, or better than

  2. (of a vessel) to ride out (a storm)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. rare prosody an extra unstressed syllable within a metrical foot

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of outride

First recorded in 1520–30; out- + ride

Example Sentences

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See Examples For:

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

Such a man, given a good plane and motor, can outride almost any gale.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Lyford, Philip

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

And Villa’s horsemen had outridden and outlasted our town boys.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

They had the better trail and have outridden us.

From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick

The strongest among them, however, stopped a moment and, hiding themselves, noticed that Tom was riding almost alone, having outridden his own troop.

From Little Tom by Tille, V.

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

Presently, a bright squadron of fair ladies drew nigh, escorted by certain outriding gallants of Falmouth.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

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 Bridges, Robert Seymour

“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

The man who outrode death as a race-track driver, a World War I ace and an airline operator had learned much on the Pacific that he wanted to tell the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

But measurements show that Dawes outrode Revere by two miles.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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