Word Meanings - OUTSTRIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To surpass in striding.
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- SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n. - STRIDE
strive; akin to LG. striden, OFries. strida to strive, D. strijden to strive, to contend, G. streiten, OHG. stritan; of uncertain origin. 1. To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. Mars in the middle of the shining - STRIDULOUS
Making a shrill, creaking sound. Sir T. Browne. The Sarmatian boor driving his stridulous cart. Longfellow. Stridulous laryngitis , a form of croup, or laryngitis, in children, associated with dyspnoea, occurring usually at night, and marked by - STRIDOR
A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise. Dryden. - STRIDULATOR
That which stridulates. Darwin. - STRIDULATION
The act of stridulating. Specifically: The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. The noise - STRIDENT
Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill. "A strident voice." Thackeray. - SURPASSABLE
That may be surpassed. - STRIDULATORY
Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation. Darwin. - STRIDULATE
To make a shrill, creaking noise; specifically , - STRID
A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride. Howitt. This striding place is called the Strid. Wordsworth. - OVERSTRIDE
To stride over or beyond. - ASTRIDE
With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow. - OUTSTRIDE
To surpass in striding. - POSTRIDER
One who rides over a post road to carry the mails. Bancroft. - BESTRIDE
1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. Shak. 2. To step over; to stride