Outlive
WordNet
verb
(1) Live longer than
"She outlived her husband by many years"
WiktionaryText
Quotations
- 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.