outlive

English

Etymology

From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- +‎ live.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /aʊtˈlɪv/

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• Rhymes: -ɪv

Verb

outlive (third-person singular simple present outlives, present participle outliving, simple past and past participle outlived)

1. (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
   • 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.:

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

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

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

2. (transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

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

3. (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
4. (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.

Synonyms

• (live longer than): survive

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “live longer than”): predecease

Hyponyms

• (live longer than): postdecease

Derived terms

• outliver

Translations

to live longer than

• Ancient Greek: διαζάω (diazáō)
• Bulgarian: надживявам (nadživjavam)
• Danish: overleve (da)
• Dutch: overleven (nl)
• Esperanto: postvivi
• French: survivre à (fr)
• German: überleben (de)
• Hungarian: túlél (hu)
• Latin: supervīvō (la), supersto, relinquor, resto, reliquum sum
• Macedonian: надживува impf (nadživuva), надживее pf (nadživee)
• Old English: oferlibban
• Russian: пережи́ть (ru) pf (perežítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: nadživeti
• Spanish: sobrevivir (a)
• Swedish: överleva (sv)

Further reading

• “outlive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “outlive”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• live out, ovulite