Definition of "outrace" []

• To surpass in speed or performance. (verb-transitive)

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• "On multiple occasions, he used his speed to outrace a defender to the basket, either dishing to an open teammate or drawing a foul to get to the free-throw line."
• "Of all the 9/11 pictures, none capture the nightmare quality of this day more than the sight of the falling buildings and their debris—that gigantic cloud of blackness rolling, it appears, in hellish pursuit of the crowds desperate to outrace it."
• "He thrust again and again in a fierce bid to outrace memory."