Meanings
verboutrange (third-person singular simple present outranges, present participle outranging, simple past and past participle outranged)
present singular third person outranges · participle present outranging · participle past outranged · past outranged
- transitiveTo have a longer range than (another projectile or weapon).
- figurativelytransitiveTo 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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outrange. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outrange
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“outrange.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outrange. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outrange,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outrange.
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