everlast

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verb

To last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.

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Meanings

verbeverlast (third-person singular simple present everlasts, present participle everlasting, simple past and past participle everlasted)

present singular third person everlasts · participle present everlasting · participle past everlasted · past everlasted

  1. intransitiverareTo last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.

    [...] as he flew through the air / to smother the blast / he reached a state of grace / that will everlast [...]

    2009, Frank Seinsheimer, Poetical Commentary
    1 more example

    They had survived several fires in their twenty years and probably would have everlasted but this had been exceptional.

    2010, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain

Origin

Back-formation from everlasting, equivalent to ever + last.

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APA

everlast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/everlast

MLA

“everlast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/everlast. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “everlast,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/everlast.

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