Outlive

Quick meaning: Outlive is a verb meaning (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

Meaning

(transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
2. (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
3. (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.

Example Sentences

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.

This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived.

Word Forms

• outlives
• outliving
• outlived

Synonyms for outlive

Depending on context, synonyms include survive, outlast.

Antonyms for outlive

Common opposites include predecease.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outlast, survive, overlive, outsurvive, supervive, live.

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