outfly
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outfly (third-person singular simple present outflies, present participle outflying, simple past outflew, past participle outflown)
- (transitive) To fly better, faster, or further than.
- 1800, Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon:
- She gave thee beauty — shaft of eyes, / That every shaft of war outflies!