To run faster than someone or something else, leaving them behind; to escape from a pursuer.
From Old English 'ut' (out) + 'run,' a straightforward compound that emerged in Middle English when 'out-' became a productive prefix for verbs meaning to exceed or surpass.
Humans are the best endurance runners on Earth—we can't sprint faster than a cheetah, but over distance we can actually outrun horses and most animals, which is why our ancestors hunted by persistence hunting!
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