outsleep

outsleep

English

Etymology

out- +‎ sleep

Verb

outsleep (third-person singular simple present outsleeps, present participle outsleeping, simple past and past participle outslept)

1. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XIII

     And often in his secret soul he prays

     To sleep through barren periods unaware,

     Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure;

     Which having passed and yielded him small treasure,

     He would outsleep another term of care.

   • 1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe

     I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.

Anagrams

• eelpouts, peelouts, sleep out, sleepout