outlive
verb
- to last or experience for a long time
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /aʊtˈlɪv/
verb
Etymology: From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.
- 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.”
“If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.”
- 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.”
- To surpass in duration; outlast.
- To live longer; continue to live.