Outrun vs Outnumbered - What's the difference?
outrun | outnumbered |
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.
(outnumber)
to be more in number than somebody or something.
As verbs the difference between outrun and outnumbered
is that outrun is to run faster than the others while outnumbered is past tense of outnumber.As a noun outrun
is the sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.outrun
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Verb
- 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.
References
* *Noun
(en noun)outnumbered
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Verb
(head)outnumber
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Verb
(en verb)- Women outnumbered men by two to one.