Definition of "outrun" []

• To run faster than. (verb-transitive)
• To escape from: outrun one's creditors. (verb-transitive)
• To go beyond; exceed: "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence” ( Joseph Wood Krutch). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "You just - if you made bad loans, if you could double and triple the volume of loans that you were making, then, you know, you could kind of outrun your, quote, unquote, "mistakes.""
• "He lived out in de edge of de woods; and when dey knocked on de door he jumped out at a back window in his night clothes wid his pants in his hands an 'outrun' em."
• "Thats a nice way to represent america.btw. to "outrun" german police is very easy, there are only a handful of porsches or AMGs, most cop cars are just "Opel" or "VW"."