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Outstrip vs Overtop - What's the difference?

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Outstrip is a related term of overtop.


As verbs the difference between outstrip and overtop

is that outstrip is to outrun or leave behind while overtop is to be higher than, to rise over the top of.

outstrip

English

Verb

  • To outrun or leave behind.
    • We quickly outstripped the amateur runners.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 4 , author=Gareth Roberts , title=Wales 19-26 England , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The wing outstripped Mark Cueto, but Foden's excellent cover tackle killed the threat. }}
  • To exceed, excel or surpass.
    • This year's production has already outstripped last year's.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 19 , author=Kerry Brown , title=Kim Jong-il obituary , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Kim was educated at the newly founded university in Pyongyang, named after his father, graduating in 1964. The 1960s and early 1970s were the golden years for the DPRK. It undertook rapid industrialisation, economically outstripped its southern competitor, and enjoyed the support of both the People's Republic of China, and the Soviet Union. }}

    overtop

    English

    Verb

    (overtopp)
  • To be higher than, to rise over the top of.
  • *1955 , William Golding, The Inheritors , Faber and Faber 2005, p. 79:
  • *:There was a single birch tree that overtopped the other trees on the island, and was now picked out against the moon-drenched sky.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 20, Robert F. Service, MATERIALS SCIENCE: Is Silicon's Reign Nearing Its End?, Science citation
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