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outlive Verb [-living, -lived] 1. to live longer than (someone): she only outlived her husband by a few months 2. to live beyond (a date or period): the sparrow outlived the winter 3. outlive its usefulness to be no longer useful or necessary: some argued that the organization had outlived its usefulness
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`A chattering crow lives out nine generations of aged men, but a stag's life is four times a crow's, and a raven's life makes three stags old, while the phoenix outlives nine ravens, but we, the rich-haired Nymphs, daughters of Zeus the aegis-holder, outlive ten phoenixes. Cutter had purposely remained childless, with the determination to outlive him and to share his property with her `people,' whom he detested. But the loss of her reputation, bad as it is, is not the worst; I shall lose my child; she hath attempted twice to destroy herself already; and though she hath been hitherto prevented, vows she will not outlive it; nor could I myself outlive any accident of that nature. |
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