outsleep
verbEtymology From out- + sleep.
1
To sleep longer than or beyond.
- And often in his secret soul he prays To sleep through barren periods unaware, Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure; Which having passed and yielded him small treasure, He would outsleep another term of care.1874, James Thomson, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night:
- I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe:
- Related terms
- oversleep, undersleep