To excel, surpass, go ahead or beyond a person or place: said of (a) two men or chiefs, one excels at first in activity or bravery, but by and by the inferior one outstrips him; (b) two men running or walking, when one gets ahead; (c) two brothers, when the younger one excels the older (who is lazy, etc.) in activity, etc.; (d) to transgress a command, do what a superior has not directed.