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
Were they given wit to know the laws And hard hearts to outride them?
From The Village Wife's Lament by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
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
He held himself to a slower pace, realizing that, while his companion could have outridden him by days and miles, the other was not used to walking.
From Partners of Chance by Knibbs, Henry Herbert
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 Lambert, Nannie
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
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 Bridges, Robert Seymour
Subsequent information satisfied the incredulous, however, that a considerable body of troops were marching northward, and their outriding scouts had been seen at Cedar Mountain, only six miles from Culpepper.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred
“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
But measurements show that Dawes outrode Revere by two miles.
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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