outlive
verbUK /aʊtˈlɪv/
Etymology From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
1
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.1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.
- If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.2003, Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving,, page 1:
2
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.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
3
To surpass in duration; outlast.
4
To live longer; continue to live.
- Synonyms
- survive
- Antonyms
- predecease
- Derived terms
- outliver
- Hyponyms
- postdecease