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out·ride  audio  (out-rd) KEY 

TRANSITIVE VERB:
out·rode  (-rd) KEY , out·rid·den  (-rdn) KEY , out·rid·ing, out·rides
  1. To ride faster, farther, or better than; outstrip.
  2. To withstand successfully; ride out: outride a storm at sea.
NOUN:
An unstressed syllable or cluster of syllables within a given metrical unit that is omitted from the scansion pattern in sprung rhythm.
ETYMOLOGY:
N. coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins


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