Outstrip vs Outwork - What's the difference?
outstrip | outwork |
To outrun or leave behind.
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To exceed, excel or surpass.
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(rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
To work faster or harder than.
A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.
As verbs the difference between outstrip and outwork
is that outstrip is to outrun or leave behind while outwork is (rare) to work out to a finish; to complete.As a noun outwork is
a minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.outstrip
English
Verb
- We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.
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- This year's production has already outstripped last year's.
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outwork
English
Verb
(en verb)- For now three dayes of men were full outwrought , / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].