outrange
English
Etymology
Verb
outrange (third-person singular simple present outranges, present participle outranging, simple past and past participle outranged)
- (transitive) To have a longer range than (another projectile or weapon).
- (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.