outlive
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
/aʊtˈlɪv/(UK)
Definition of outlive
4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
“And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.”
“If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.”
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verb
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(transitive)To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
“And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.”
“If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.”
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(transitive)To live through or past (a given time).
“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.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
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