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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners" [syn: outdistance, outstrip, distance]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb Date: 1857 to go far ahead of (as in a race) ; outstrip

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. leave (a competitor) behind completely.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(outdistances, outdistancing, outdistanced) 1. If you outdistance someone, you are a lot better and more successful than they are at a particular activity over a period of time. It didn't matter that Ingrid had outdistanced them as a movie star. = outdo VERB: V n 2. If you outdistance your opponents in a contest of some kind, you beat them easily. ...a millionaire businessman who easily outdistanced his major rivals for the nomination. = outstrip VERB: V n

Moby Thesaurus

carry out, distance, extend out, get ahead of, go, go out, hold the field, leave behind, outlie, outrange, outstretch, overpass, pass, range out, reach out, shoot ahead of, steal a march, stretch out, surpass