OUTLAST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outlast mean? 

• OUTLAST (verb)
  The verb OUTLAST has 1 sense:

1. live longer than

  Familiarity information: OUTLAST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTLAST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outlast    ... he / she / it outlasts   
Past simple: outlasted   
Past participle: outlasted   
-ing form: outlasting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Live longer than

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

outlast; outlive; survive

Context example:

She outlived her husband by many years

"Outlast" entails doing...:

be; live (have life, be alive)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

Current TB treatment takes six months, largely to outlast the persisters.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)

The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Without social transmission taking place in predator species such as great tits, it becomes extremely difficult for conspicuously coloured prey to outlast and outcompete alternative prey, even if they are distasteful or toxic.

(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)

“When Em'ly got strong again,” said Mr. Peggotty, after another short interval of silence, “she cast about to leave that good young creetur, and get to her own country. The husband was come home, then; and the two together put her aboard a small trader bound to Leghorn, and from that to France. She had a little money, but it was less than little as they would take for all they done. I'm a'most glad on it, though they was so poor! What they done, is laid up wheer neither moth or rust doth corrupt, and wheer thieves do not break through nor steal. Mas'r Davy, it'll outlast all the treasure in the wureld.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)