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Definition of Outranged
1. outrange [v] - See also: outrange
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outranged
Literary usage of Outranged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1900)
"Our forces were seriously outnumbered and our guns outranged " (yesterday), wrote
a correspondent in Ladysmith, " until the arrival of the naval brigade, ..."
2. The Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1901)
"They were mounted on carriages hastily extemporised for the emergency by Captain
Percy Scott, of the Royal Navy, and, as they outranged the army field guns ..."
3. The Great Crusade: Extracts from Speeches Delivered During the War by David Lloyd George (1918)
"Though armed only with a three-pounder gun and outranged by her opponents she
... Attacked by submarines, outranged, the main boom broken, the funnel down, ..."
4. The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen (1919)
"But in our own day the pride of length of reach goes with the heavier projectile.
Not that the 12-inch guns of Inflexible and Invincible literally outranged ..."
5. A History of the Great War by Bertram Benedict (1919)
"The French heavy guns now got into action, but as the German siege-guns had
outranged the guns of the fortresses of Liege and Namur, the German field-guns ..."
6. With the Naval Brigade in Natal, 1899-1900: Journal of Active Service Kept by Charles Richard Newdigate Burne (1902)
"I unhesitatingly state that on all occasions the British Naval guns inch for inch
outranged and outshot the Boer guns ; and that the 47 Q.-F. even outranged ..."
7. Battlefields of the Civil War, Vol. II by Blair Howard (1995)
"The Federal line remained unbroken; the Confederate guns, outranged and outmatched,
were rendered almost ineffective. By 3 o'clock it had become obvious to ..."
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