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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of outsail.

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Examples

  • Fast as the Reindeer could sail, the junk outsailed her; and to avoid running her down I hauled a little closer on the wind.

    YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010

  • The latest Pirates installment, outsailed its predecessor.

    Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week July 10-14, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

  • Tthe latest Pirates installment, outsailed its predecessor.

    Depp's 'Pirates' Hauls In Record Bounty For Disney 2006

  • These, with the exception of one ship, all outsailed them and got safe into

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • The Athenians perceiving their intention extended their own wing and outsailed them, while their left had by this time passed the point of Cynossema.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • Though Ranger “far outsailed” Hussar, Gurley reported, he was able to lose the American ship by making short tacks and sailing into shallow shoal water.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • The Athenians perceiving their intention extended their own right wing and outsailed them, 5 while their left had by this time passed the point of Cynossema.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • The Athenians perceiving their intention extended their own right wing and outsailed them, 5 while their left had by this time passed the point of Cynossema.

    THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

  • Though Ranger “far outsailed” Hussar, Gurley reported, he was able to lose the American ship by making short tacks and sailing into shallow shoal water.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Before long, he had outsailed all but the fifty-gun ship, when he espied ahead of him the entire English Channel fleet, including twenty-eight ships of the line several of which were three-deckers, and a number of frigates, sloops of war, and cutters, extending in a line southward for about nine miles from the Isle of Wight.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

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