OUTSTRIPPING

OUTSTRIP

surpass, outstrip, outmatch, outgo, exceed, outdo, surmount, outperform

(verb) be or do something to a greater degree; “her performance surpasses that of any other student I know”; “She outdoes all other athletes”; “This exceeds all my expectations”; “This car outperforms all others in its class”

outdistance, outstrip, distance

(verb) go far ahead of; “He outdistanced the other runners”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

outstripping

present participle of outstrip

Source: Wiktionary


OUTSTRIP

Out*strip", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outstripped; p. pr. & vb. n. Outstripping.]

Definition: To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing. Appetites which . . . had outstripped the hours. Southey. He still outstript me in the race. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

10 June 2025

COMMUNICATIONS

(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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