outrange

outrange

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ range.

Verb

outrange (third-person singular simple present outranges, present participle outranging, simple past and past participle outranged)

  1. (transitive) To have a longer range than (another projectile or weapon).
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To extend beyond the scope of; to extrapolate.
    • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 89:
      Only the men of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea who sat among the audience and whose vision outranged the scene of those victories could read the deeper meaning of the poet.