English

Verb

outlive ‎(third-person singular simple present outlives, present participle outliving, simple past and past participle outlived)

1. (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
   • 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.:

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

   • 2003, Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving, page 1:

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

2. (transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     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. (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
4. (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.

Synonyms

• (live longer than): survive

Antonyms

• (live longer than): predecease

Derived terms

• outliver

Translations

External links

• outlive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• outlive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911