outlive
English
Etymology
From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪv
Verb
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- (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
- 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.:
- And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.
- 2003, Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving, page 1:
- If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.
- 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.:
- (transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived.
- 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
- (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
- (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.
Synonyms
- (live longer than): survive
Antonyms
- (live longer than): predecease
Derived terms
Translations
to live longer than
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Further reading
- “outlive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “outlive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.