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
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
Well, watchin' both, a senseless kind uv pride cum over me, and I sed ter myself over and over, 'This ere ship cud outride any gale whatever blow'd.'
From The Wedge of Gold by Goodwin, C. C.
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
Cesare, meanwhile, was at Fano, where he paused to allow his army to come up with him, for he had outridden it from Fossate, through foul wintry weather, attended only by his light horse.
From The Life of Cesare Borgia by Sabatini, Rafael
No attendant was within sight; indeed, it was often a nice strain of flattery to permit the Sovereign to suppose he had outridden and distanced all the rest of the chase.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Scott, Walter, Sir
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
He thought about how terribly vulnerable to attack Pallastown seemed, even with its encirclement of outriding guard stations.
From The Planet Strappers by Gallun, Raymond Z.
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 Holland, Rupert Sargent
“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
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
“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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