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outsleep

outsleep verb: to sleep longer than or beyond.

Verb

outsleep (third-person singular simple present outsleeps, present participle outsleeping, simple past and past participle outslept)

  1. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
    • And often in his secret soul he prays
      To sleep through barren periods unaware,
      Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure;
      Which having passed and yielded him small treasure,
      He would outsleep another term of care.1874, James Thomson, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night
    • I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe

Forms of outsleep

third-person singular presentoutsleeps
present participleoutsleeping
past participleoutslept
pastoutslept

Origin of outsleep

From out- + sleep.

Questions about outsleep

What does outsleep mean?
Outsleep means to sleep longer than or beyond.
What part of speech is outsleep?
Outsleep is a verb.
What is the past tense of outsleep?
The past tense of outsleep is outslept.

Words near outsleep in the dictionary

  1. outslanders
  2. outslang
  3. outslanged
  4. outslanging
  5. outslangs
  6. outsleep
  7. outsleeping
  8. outsleeps
  9. outslept
  10. outslick
  11. outslicked

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