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outlive

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out·live  (out-lv)
tr.v. out·lived, out·liv·ing, out·lives
1. To live longer than: She outlived her son.
2. To continue in use or existence long enough to survive (something else): a regulation that has outlived its usefulness.
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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Verb1.outlive - live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"
outlast, survive
outlive
verb survive, outlast, live on after, endure beyond, remain alive after
Translations
Spanish outlive [autˈlɪv] vt → sobrevivir a
French outlive [autˈlɪv] vt → survivre à
German outlive [autˈlɪv] vt (= survive) → überleben
Italian outlive [autˈlɪv] vt → sopravvivere a
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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.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Cutter had purposely remained childless, with the determination to outlive him and to share his property with her `people,' whom he detested.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
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.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
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