outwalk

American  

[out-wawk] / ˌaʊtˈwɔk /

verb (used with object)

1. to outdo in walking; walking; walk faster or farther than.

2. to walk beyond.

   to outwalk the lights of the city.

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Etymology

Origin of outwalk

First recorded in 1620–30; out- + walk

Example Sentences

It suggests that we are clever today in part because a million years ago, we could outrun and outwalk most other mammals over long distances.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2012

The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff and Deputy CinCPac.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wager is the outcome of a jocular remark made by Gray to the effect that he would outwalk any man his age from Banbury to Oxford.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Downplay," for example, is jettisoned by Novelist Peter De Vries: "If I heard a speaker use it I would upget and outwalk."

From Time Magazine Archive

Never mind, Ti-Clê!—you will outwalk your cousins when you are a few years older,—pretty Ti-Clê….

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio