to outlive
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3.4
- verb
- /aʊtˈlɪv/
- They are objects that will outlive me and that I am currently a steward of.
- outlived its usefulness
- tend to outlive
- expect to outlive
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Watch on YouTubeIt will be a movement that will outlive any candidates.
- It will be a movement that will outlive any candidates.
- People live longer, but they often find that they have outlived their resources.
- Nobel Prize winners outlive other scientists.
- It's likely you might outlive Google and Facebook.
- Now we could say, well wait a second, what if you outlive somebody else?
- You know that we've that will outlive us.
- I thought that my mum would outlive me.
- Why many times a narcissistic person will outlive the folks around them.
- The work that you're doing will outlive you and the influence that you have will outlive you.
- The racism that attended, supported, and outlived Atlantic slavery is a species of war as well.
- So even when a not narcissistic relationship has sort of outlived its shelf life, people stick around.
- One way of getting ahead of your enemies in the naysayers is to outlive them.
Examples
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Mother, I always knew you would outlive me.
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I thought he would outlive all of us.
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You women, by the way, are going to outlive US men on average.
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Now we could say, well wait a second, what if you outlive somebody else?
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In the United States today, women outlive men by about seven years.
Academic text (2002) -
I wondered how it could be that my father might outlive a woman as good as my mother?
Fiction book (1994) -
Nan will outlive all of us.
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He believed that love could outlive death.
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By then, she was in her late eighties and had outlived several of her children.
Fiction book (1998) -
My grandmother always believed she would outlive her friends.
Synonyms
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4.4
Continue to exist longer than someone or something
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2.5
Live after someone close to you has died
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Etymology
The word outlive is made of the parts out- meaning 'more than' or 'beyond' and live meaning 'to be alive'. So outlive means to 'live longer' than someone or something else, like when one person outlasts another.