outstrike

t. [Eng. out, and strike.] 1. To strike out. "This sentence serves and that my hand outstrikes." Drayton: Matilda to King John. 2. To strike faster than. "A swifter mean shall outstrike thought." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , iv. 6. out-strip', v . t. [Eng. out , and strip .] To outrun, to advance beyond, to exceed, to surpa , to leave behind. "What we have of feeling most intense Outstrips our faint expre ion." Byron: Childe Harold, iv. 158.