outlive

present singular third person outlives · participle present outliving · participle past outlived · past outlived

1. transitiveTo live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

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

   1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.

   1 more example

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

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

   Synonyms: survive

2. transitiveTo live through or past (a given time).

   This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived.

   1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew

3. transitiveTo surpass in duration; outlast.
4. intransitiveTo live longer; continue to live.