outlive

outlive

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈlɪv/
• Rhymes: -ɪv

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

to live longer than

Danish: overleve (da) Dutch: overleven (nl) Esperanto: postvivi German: überleben (de) Latin: supersum (la), supersto, relinquor, resto, reliquum sum

Macedonian: надживува impf (nadživuva), надживее pf (nadživee) Russian: пережи́ть (ru) pf (perežítʹ) Serbo-Croatian: nadživeti Spanish: sobrevivir (a)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• live out, ovulite