Practice JLPTMeaning
追い抜く (おいぬく, oinuku) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “pass, overtake”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 6
リレーで 彼は 二人 追い 抜いたね。
He overtook two people in the relay.
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.3
またセット車速での定車速走行中に遅い先行車の後ろに付いた後に、直ぐに車線変更して先行車を追い抜く場合に、自車の車速変動を減少させることができる。
In the case of immediately changing a lane of own vehicle and overtaking the preceding vehicle after following a behind of the slow preceding vehicle during fixed speed traveling at a set vehicle speed, change of vehicle speed of the own vehicle can be reduced.
駅しか通過せず、普通列車も抜かない列車が多く、京都線の輸送力の補完の意味合いが強いが、一部の準急は上鳥羽口駅で普通列車を追い抜く（平日の下り3本、土休日の下り1本）。
Semi-express trains instead serve as a support to reinforce the transportation capacity of the Kyoto Line, because many of them pass nonstop at only three stations and don't even get ahead of the local trains; however a few semi-express trains go ahead of local trains at Kamitobaguchi Station (three outbouond trains on weekdays, and one outbound train on Saturdays and holidays).
宇治～奈良間は各駅に停車するが、かつては深夜などに行き違いの関係で宇治駅で普通を追い抜く木津方面行きの区間快速があったが、現在は区間快速の前を走る普通はそのまま終着駅まで逃げ切るダイヤに変更されている。
The regional rapid service stops at every station between Uji Station and Nara Station, while some regional rapid services bound for Kizu used to pass the local train at Uji Station in the late evening, etc., due to the schedule; however, based on the current schedule, the regional rapid service doesn't pass the local train before reaching the arrival station.
同様の例は姫路駅での分割中に「はくと(列車)」が先発する例があるのみで、新快速が特急待避となることはまれである（琵琶湖線内で特急が新快速を追い抜く例はあるが、複々線区間内のため、通過待ち合わせは行わない）。
It is rare that the limited express train passes the special rapid train, except for one example in which the Limited Express 'Hakuto (train)' passes the special rapid train while the special rapid train is being decoupled at Himeji Station (there is an example that the limited express train passes the special rapid train on the Biwako Line, but this occurs within a quadruple track and the special rapid train doesn't wait for the limited express to pass).