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outlive

/aʊtˈlɪv/

outlive verb: to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

Verb

outlive (third-person singular simple present outlives, present participle outliving, simple past and past participle outlived)

  1. (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
    • And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII.
    • If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.2003, Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving,, page 1
    Synonyms:
    survive
  2. (transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
    • This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived.1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew
  3. (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
  4. (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.

outlive meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

outlive in Urdu

لمبی عمر پانا

outlive in Malayalam

അതിജീവിക്കുക, അധികകാലം ജീവിക്കുക, ജീവനോടെ ശേഷിച്ചിരിക്കുക

outlive in Kannada

ಹೊತ್ತುಮೀರಿ ಬದುಕು, ಪಾರಾಗು

Examples of outlive in a sentence

  • There are those who try to outlive their means while others just stay in their lane.
  • As an example of how long Keynes’ influence has outlived the man himself, President Richard M.
  • The paninaro trend petered out but the McDonald's outlived Garavani.

All 11 example sentences with outlive

Synonyms of outlive

Antonyms

Forms of outlive

third-person singular presentoutlives
present participleoutliving
past participleoutlived
pastoutlived

Past tense of outlive: outlived

Origin of outlive

From Middle English outliven, equivalent to out- + live.

Words formed from outlive

Words that rhyme with outlive

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Questions about outlive

What does outlive mean?
Outlive means to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
What is outlive in Urdu?
Outlive in Urdu is لمبی عمر پانا. See Outlive meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is outlive?
Outlive is a verb.
How do you pronounce outlive?
Outlive is pronounced /aʊtˈlɪv/ (UK).
What is the past tense of outlive?
The past tense of outlive is outlived.

Words near outlive in the dictionary

  1. outlistens
  2. outlitigate
  3. outlitigated
  4. outlitigates
  5. outlitigating
  6. outlive
  7. outlived
  8. outliver
  9. outlivers
  10. outlives
  11. outliveth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: outlive (page history and authors); outlive (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outlive (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); outlive (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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