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OUTRUN
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Irregular inflected forms: outran , outrunning
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they outrun ... he / she / it outruns
Past simple: outran
Past participle: outrun
-ing form: outrunning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Run faster than
Example:
in this race, I managed to outran everybody else
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "outrun" is one way to...):
run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
Sam cannot outrun Sue
