Outlive Definition

out-lĭv
outlived, outlives, outliving
verb
outlived, outlives, outliving
To live or endure longer than.
Webster's New World
To continue in use or existence long enough to survive (something else).
A regulation that has outlived its usefulness.
American Heritage
To live through; outlast.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Outlive

  • From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- +"Ž live.

    From Wiktionary

Outlive Sentence Examples

  • She was never meant to outlive meeting Gabriel.

  • Many birds have a long lifespan and may outlive their owners.

  • Desperate to maintain her position as her people's protector and outlive those threats hedging closer, she washed her face and changed clothing to prepare for her return journey.

  • The local centres will survive political and historical vicissitudes and the changes of national cults and sects, and may outlive the national deities.

  • Neither did the giraffe acquire its long neck by desiring to reach the foliage of more lofty shrubs, and constantly stretching its neck for the purpose, but because any varieties which occurred among its antitypes with a longer neck than usual at once secured a fresh range of pasture over the same ground as their shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them."

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Words Starting With

OOUOUT

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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