0 past simple and past participle of outdistance
1 to be faster in a race than other competitors, or (more generally) to be much better than someone:
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.
However, he could do that only for a short time in 1850, because wireless telegraphy quickly outdistanced the speed of the pigeons.
