Meanings
verboutstay (third-person singular simple present outstays, present participle outstaying, simple past and past participle outstayed)
present singular third person outstays · participle present outstaying · participle past outstayed · past outstayed
- transitiveTo stay beyond or longer than.
Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman..."
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 149
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*úd
- Proto-Germanic*ūt
- Proto-Germanic*ūt-
- Old Englishūt-
- Middle Englishut-
- Englishout-
- Englishstay
- Englishoutstay
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APA
outstay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstay
MLA
“outstay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstay. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “outstay,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/outstay.
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