追い抜く

Meaning

1. v5kvt
   to pass (a car); to overtake
2. v5kvt
   to surpass; to outstrip; to outdistance; to outsail

Example sentences

• もしスペンサーが文を足して訳し続けなければ、他の貢献者がきっと彼を追い抜くだろう。

  If Spenser doesn't keep adding and translating sentences, the other contributors will surely surpass him.

• あの車に追い抜かれた。

  I was overtaken by that car.

• 「電動自転車に乗ってる奴ってずるいよな」「どうしたの？」「だって、こっちは一生懸命汗水たらして漕いでるのに、涼しい顔して勝ち誇ったように横を追い抜いてくんだよ。めっちゃ悔しい」

  "Those guys on electric bikes, it's not fair." "What's the matter?" "It's just, here I am pedaling hard, dripping with sweat, and they come along passing me all calm and triumphant like. It's so infuriating!"