OUTLIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they outlive ... he / she / it outlives

Past simple: outlived

Past participle: outlived

-ing form: outliving

Sense 1

Meaning:

Live longer than

Example:

She outlived her husband by many years

Synonyms:

outlast; outlive; survive

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

"Outlive" entails doing...:

be; live (have life, be alive)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Credits

Context examples:

Here is a nut, said he, catching one down from an upper bough, to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Colonel Brandon is certainly younger than Mrs. Jennings, but he is old enough to be MY father; and if he were ever animated enough to be in love, must have long outlived every sensation of the kind.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

What wonderful discoveries should we make in astronomy, by outliving and confirming our own predictions; by observing the progress and return of comets, with the changes of motion in the sun, moon, and stars!

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's, and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.