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: --
Having outdistanced their lines of communication, the brigade waited in the village under shellfire for three hours for their supply trains to reach them.
Yet other sectors of the economy have outdistanced manufacturing and are seeing large increases.
The wing outdistanced the nearest competitor by more than 2,000 points.
Ershad easily outdistanced the remaining candidates, taking 84% of the vote.
They found that an industry which had been a front runner and boasted of a distinguished history of achievement, had allowed itself to be outdistanced by its foreign competitors.
For years now the level of wage inflation has considerably outdistanced that of price inflation, and the pincer movement between the two has grossly undermined the resources of industry generally.
It seems to us that we are being outdistanced by our competitors.
However, he could do that only for a short time in 1850, because wireless telegraphy quickly outdistanced the speed of the pigeons.
