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
Such a man, given a good plane and motor, can outride almost any gale.
From Time Magazine Archive
I thought we should outride him—a parson never can manage a pony.
From Olive A Novel by G. Bowers
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
"We have already far outridden our men," said Sir Richard, frowning slightly as he turned his head to look over his shoulder; "and this is the worst part of the road before us."
From The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot by Evelyn Everett-Green
They had the better trail and have outridden us.
From Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer
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
Streight's purpose was to make all haste forward to Rome, outriding his pursuers, and do what damage he could.
From Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
The boy then turned, and succeeded in outriding the dragoons, and finally found refuge in the woods, where his brother Robert joined him that night.
From Historic Boyhoods by Rupert Sargent Holland
“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
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
“A crossbowman tried to put a quarrel through my eye, but I outrode it. I was hurrying home to my queen, to bask in the warmth of her smile.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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