Outdrove

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To have driven beyond a certain point or location; to have surpassed others in distance or speed while driving; to have exhausted or depleted the driving capabilities of a vehicle or person over time
2. To surpass in driving ability or distance compared to others; to have exceeded a certain driving limit or target; to have drained the capacity or energy of a vehicle or person in the process of driving
3. To have outpaced others in a journey or travel; to have gone further than expected in driving performance; to have diminished the driving endurance of a vehicle or individual over a course of time

Etymology: "Outdrove" is the simple past of "outdrive," so it simply tells you what happened in the past: someone drove farther or faster than another. The verb is built from "out-," meaning beyond or surpassing, and "drive," the familiar word for moving something along by force or control. Its ancestor was the Middle English "outdriven," which joined the same two parts in the same sense. The pattern is ordinary English. Many verbs take "out-" to mean doing something better or further than others, as with "outrun," "outshine," and "outlast." The past form "outdrove" follows the strong-verb pattern of "drive, drove, driven," so it changes its vowel rather than adding "-ed."

Synonyms: outran, outpaced, outstripped, outsprinted, surpassed

Antonyms: outrun, lost, fell behind, lagged, trailed