OUTLIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outlive mean? 

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

1. live longer than

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTLIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they outlive    ... he / she / it outlives   
Past simple: outlived   
Past participle: outlived   
-ing form: outliving   

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

"Outlive" entails doing...:

be; live (have life, be alive)

Sentence frames:

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

 Context examples 

Her joy and expression of regard long outlived her wonder.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have not yet outlived it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Peggotty was quietly assisting, with the old insensible work-box, yard-measure, and bit of wax-candle before her, that had now outlived so much.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The researchers found that the DNA of dominant breeders actually shows signs of accelerated ageing – yet they still consistently outlive the non-breeding subordinates in the group.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)

It may be rendered into English thus: “May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half!”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You have every body dearest to you always at hand, I, probably, never shall again; and therefore till I have outlived all my affections, a post-office, I think, must always have power to draw me out, in worse weather than to-day.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself; but, whenever she did catch a glimpse, she saw an expression of general complaisance, and in all that he said she heard an accent so removed from hauteur or disdain of his companions, as convinced her that the improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed however temporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one day.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

My child, the troubles and temptations of your life are beginning and may be many, but you can overcome and outlive them all if you learn to feel the strength and tenderness of your Heavenly Father as you do that of your earthly one.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)