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everlast

everlast verb: to last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.

Verb

everlast (third-person singular simple present everlasts, present participle everlasting, simple past and past participle everlasted)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.
    • [...] as he flew through the air / to smother the blast / he reached a state of grace / that will everlast [...]2009, Frank Seinsheimer, Poetical Commentary
    • They had survived several fires in their twenty years and probably would have everlasted but this had been exceptional.2010, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain

Forms of everlast

third-person singular presenteverlasts
present participleeverlasting
past participleeverlasted
pasteverlasted

Origin of everlast

Back-formation from everlasting, equivalent to ever + last.

Words formed from everlast

  • everlastable

Questions about everlast

What does everlast mean?
Everlast means to last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.
What part of speech is everlast?
Everlast is a verb.
What is the past tense of everlast?
The past tense of everlast is everlasted.

Words near everlast in the dictionary

  1. Everingham
  2. Everinghams
  3. Everitt
  4. Everitts
  5. Everlark
  6. everlast
  7. everlasted
  8. everlastin'
  9. everlasting
  10. everlasting flower
  11. everlasting flowers

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