outsleep

present singular third person outsleeps · participle present outsleeping · participle past outslept · past outslept

1. transitiveTo sleep longer than or beyond.

   I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.

   1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe

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   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.

   1874, James Thomson, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night