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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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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

And you know just as well as I do that a ship loaded with pirates is just as apt to outride the storm as one crowded with missionaries.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

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 Frederick Palmer

The outlaws, outnumbered and outridden, were fain to cry for quarter.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Margaret Burnham

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

They knew that their intention had been discovered, and that their only chance of success now lay in outriding the pale-faces.

From The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains by Archibald Webb

Take notice that the outriding feet are not to be confused with dactyls or paeons, though sometimes the line might be scanned either way.

From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges

“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

This winter, still an "apprentice," he outrode his most experienced rivals at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, then moved on to Bowie to lead the field there as well.

From Time Magazine Archive

They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Jockey Harry Richards outrode Jack Pollard at the wire, otherwise Seabiscuit, streaking along in midstretch with a length lead, must surely have won,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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