outsurvive

present singular third person outsurvives · participle present outsurviving · participle past outsurvived · past outsurvived

1. transitiveTo survive longer than; to outlive.

   It is not the case that A outsurvived B because A had greater fitness. If A outsurvived B, it was because A possessed some set of properties, P, that B lacked.

   1992, P. E. Griffiths, Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology, page 155

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   In war, merely to outsurvive the enemy can be an advantage. He who survives can communicate his outsurvival to headquarters, meaning that the masters he serves will know of the outcome of his struggle even if he dies shortly thereafter.

   2006, Hugh Cook, The Worshippers And the Way, page 250

   Synonyms: survive