outrange

verb — 2 senses

outrange

verb

Etymology From out- + range.

1

To have a longer range than (another projectile or weapon).

2

Figuratively To extend beyond the scope of; to extrapolate.

  • 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.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “III. The Persians”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 89:

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