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outlive

verb

  1. to last or experience for a long time
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /aʊtˈlɪv/

verb

Etymology: From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. To surpass in duration; outlast.
  4. To live longer; continue to live.