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
Such a man, given a good plane and motor, can outride almost any gale.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He was a man of powerful frame, large beyond the common, of great endurance, and able to outride any of his men, without sleep or rest.
From Stories Of Ohio by William Dean Howells
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
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And Villa’s horsemen had outridden and outlasted our town boys.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Agesilaus meanwhile, considering that the horse had outridden the foot, but that he himself had the whole body of his own army entire, made haste to engage them.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
A few others remained on the hulk, and stayed on deck in hopes to signal some passing vessel which had outridden the storm.
From Golden Moments Bright Stories for Young Folks by Anonymous
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
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At the instant, crashing through the underwood, came Ewell, outriding staff and escort.
From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor
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
“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
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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
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“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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