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English
Etymology
From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
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outlive (third-person singular simple present outlives, present participle outliving, simple past and past participle outlived)
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
- (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.
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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.
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