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• v  be or do something to a greater degree
• v  go far ahead of

• Still, China's plans to build aircraft carriers and boost its own submarine fleet far outstrip that of New Delhi.
• If the estimates prove true, Iraq's potential would outstrip its other neighbor Iran, which sits atop about 136 billion barrels of oil.
• It would make him mad to see anyone outstrip us.

• surpass
• outmatch
• outgo
• exceed
• outdo
• surmount
• outperform
• outdistance
• distance

News & Articles

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• India set to overtake China in population
  NEW DELHI — India's population is set to outstrip China's as much as 15 years earlier than previous estimates, according to a new United Nations report. But the real concern is that the scary UN numbers could trigger a drastic and counterproductive government response.
  June 15, 2013 - New Haven Register

Quotes

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• James Murdoch in Sydney Morning Herald
  A stake in Rotana expands our presence in a region with a young and growing population where GDP growth is set to outstrip that of more developed economies in the years ahead,James Murdoch explained.
• Peter Piot in CBC.ca
  The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it,Piot said.
• Lloyd Blankfein in guardian.co.uk
  The industry let the growth and complexity in new instruments outstrip their economic and social utility as well as the operational capacity to manage them,Blankfein said at the conference organised by German business daily Handelsblatt....