outrace

American  

[out-reys] / ˌaʊtˈreɪs /

verb (used with object)

outraced, outracing

1. to race or run faster than.

   The deer outraced its pursuers.

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Etymology

Origin of outrace

First recorded in 1650–60; out- + race ¹

Example Sentences

He’s in such peak physical condition that you believe Isaiah’s conviction that it’s possible to outrace Father Time.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors.

From Science Daily • Sep. 19, 2023

They'll leave parties early, desperate to outrace the clock and get a kid to their own bed in time.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2023

At the urging of Frances’s mother, who was fearful that they would be captured with such a defiant marionette as they tried to outrace the Nazis, they buried the puppet in their backyard.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

This expressly decreed that nothing could outrace the speed of light and yet here were physicists insisting that, somehow, at the subatomic level, information could.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson