0 to be faster in a race than other competitors, or (more generally) to be much better than someone:
1 to go faster or farther than other competitors, esp. in a race:
In value terms it vastly outdistances anything which could possibly be the outcome of the renegotiations.
If the demand continues at the present rate, by this winter it will definitely have outdistanced our record pre-war year of output of winter milk.
Such ships would be outdistanced by speed and in range by modern ships.
The process of mechanisation has far outdistanced any reductions which have been made in the authorised number of officers' chargers.
It is difficult to draft a law that makes sense today and ensure that it is not outdistanced by technology tomorrow.
Moreover, even if over the whole year we showed some increase, we were in that year sadly outdistanced by our principal competitors.
I should call it—but she has far outdistanced all of us who were created peers on that list, and deservedly so.
It is a disaster in respect of which our worst fears are being constantly outdistanced by reality as it emerges.
