outdistanced
past simple and past participle ofoutdistance
outdistance
verb[T]
uk/ˌaʊtˈdɪs.təns/us/ˌaʊtˈdɪs.təns/to befasterin aracethan othercompetitors, or (moregenerally) to be muchbetterthan someone:
Thecompanyoutdistancetheirnearestbusinesscompetitorsbyalongway.
Synonym
outstrip
Winning, losing & scoring in sport
- aet
- against the run of playidiom
- bag
- blowsomeoneaway
- close-run
- co-holder
- concede
- equalizer
- golden goal
- pull
- pull back
- reelsomethingoff
- relegation zone
- run away withsomeone
- score
- scorecard
- straight
- strike
- treble
- walk itidiom
Examplesofoutdistanced
outdistanced
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
If the demand continues at the present rate, by this winter it will definitely haveoutdistancedour record pre-war year of output of winter milk.
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Such ships would beoutdistancedby speed and in range by modern ships.
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The process of mechanisation has faroutdistancedany reductions which have been made in the authorised number of officers' chargers.
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It is difficult to draft a law that makes sense today and ensure that it is notoutdistancedby technology tomorrow.
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Moreover, even if over the whole year we showed some increase, we were in that year sadlyoutdistancedby our principal competitors.
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I should call it—but she has faroutdistancedall of us who were created peers on that list, and deservedly so.
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It is a disaster in respect of which our worst fears are being constantlyoutdistancedby reality as it emerges.
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However, he could do that only for a short time in 1850, because wireless telegraphy quicklyoutdistancedthe speed of the pigeons.
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It seems to us that we are beingoutdistancedby our competitors.
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For years now the level of wage inflation has considerablyoutdistancedthat of price inflation, and the pincer movement between the two has grossly undermined the resources of industry generally.
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They found that an industry which had been a front runner and boasted of a distinguished history of achievement, had allowed itself to beoutdistancedby its foreign competitors.
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Ershad easilyoutdistancedthe remaining candidates, taking 84% of the vote.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The wingoutdistancedthe nearest competitor by more than 2,000 points.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Yet other sectors of the economy haveoutdistancedmanufacturing and are seeing large increases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Havingoutdistancedtheir lines of communication, the brigade waited in the village under shellfire for three hours for their supply trains to reach them.
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- naval personnel
- naval pilot
- naval presence
- naval programme
- naval-programme
- naval research
- naval reserve
- naval ship
- naval station
- naval stores
- naval-stores
- naval strength
- naval tactics
- naval uniform
- naval unit
- naval vessel
- naval warfare
- naval-warfare
- nave
- navel
- navel-gazing
- navel-gazing
- navel orange
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