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outgallop

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To run faster than; to outdistance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: especially, transitive

Examples

  • 1869, Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude, ch. 14, He had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun-colored, with light mane and tail, and when he rode it no one could outgallop him.

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úd Proto-Germanic *ūt Proto-Germanic *ūt- Old English ūt- Middle English ut- English out- English gallop English outgallop From out- + gallop.