Wordnet 3.0
VERB (1)
1.
surpass in speed;
- Example: "Malthus believed that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Outpace \Out*pace"\, v. t. [Cf. Outpass.]
1. To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind. --Lamb.
[1913 Webster]
2. To exceed in development or performance; to outdo.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
outpace
v 1: surpass in speed; "Malthus believed that population
increase would outpace increases in the means of
subsistence"