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outpace
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb outpace has 1 sense
- outpace(v = verb.competition) Array - surpass in speed; "Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence" is one way to exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
outpace, v. t. [Cf. Outpass.].
- To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. Lamb. [1913 Webster]
- To exceed in development or performance; to outdo. [PJC]
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