Definitions for outran

outran out·ran

Spelling: [out-ran]
IPA: /ˌaʊtˈræn/

Outran is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in outran (anortu).

Definitions for outran

verb

  1. simple past tense of outrun.

verb (used with object)

  1. to run faster or farther than.
  2. to escape by or as if by running:
  3. to exceed; excel; surpass.

Origin of outran

First recorded in 1520-30; out + run

Examples for outran

Astonishment so outran good-breeding that I unwittingly let him perceive it.

Both of them immediately rose, but Vermilion outran her sister and brought the chair.

As he was very fleet, he outran the Lion so long as they were on the open plain.

She was so light in running that she outran the swiftest dogs.

I liked him that day he outran the flier; I've often thought of him since then.

Most of them outran me, but I guess we have got a few penned up in the circle.

He outran fire-and-oil justice, and was caught in the mesh of circumstances.

He outran all the rest, and was the first man to arrive in the city.

That he saw he was beaten, and fell so that he might make a claim that you outran him by accident.

The demand for his latest work was so great that it outran the supply.

Word Value for outran
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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