Definition of "outran" []

• Past tense of outrun. (verb)

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• "So the temptation of the glib phrase outran his discretion."
• "His power of expression outran his real intelligence, and constantly determined his opinion; while talking about shams, he was himself the greatest of shams."
• "If a new allele was being driven to fixation, it would produce a long haplotype as it "outran" (at least transiently) linkage disequilibrium."