Outran vs Outrank - What's the difference?
outran | outrank |
(outrun)
To run faster than the others.
To exceed or overextend.
* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 164
* 1851 ,
(sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
As verbs the difference between outran and outrank
is that outran is (outrun) while outrank is to be of a higher rank than.outran
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* *outrun
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- They will take care not to outrun their income. They will never be distressed for money.
- [...] as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.