transcription, транскрипция: [ aʊtrʌn ]
( outruns, outrunning, outran)
Note: The form 'outrun' is used in the present tense and is also the past participle of the verb.
1.
If you outrun someone, you run faster than they do, and therefore are able to escape from them or to arrive somewhere before they do.
There are not many players who can outrun me.
VERB : V n
2.
If one thing outruns another thing, the first thing develops faster than the second thing.
Spending could outrun the capacity of businesses to produce the goods.
= exceed, outstrip
VERB : V n