everlast

verb

everlast

verb

Etymology Back-formation from everlasting, equivalent to ever + last.

1

Rare To last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.

  • [...] as he flew through the air / to smother the blast / he reached a state of grace / that will everlast [...]2009, Frank Seinsheimer, Poetical Commentary:
  • They had survived several fires in their twenty years and probably would have everlasted but this had been exceptional.2010, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain:
Derived terms
everlastable

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