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outsurvives

outsurvives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outsurvive.

Meaning of outsurvive

Verb

outsurvive (third-person singular simple present outsurvives, present participle outsurviving, simple past and past participle outsurvived)

  1. (transitive) To survive longer than; to outlive.
    • It is not the case that A outsurvived B because A had greater fitness. If A outsurvived B, it was because A possessed some set of properties, P, that B lacked.1992, P. E. Griffiths, Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology, page 155
    Synonyms:
    survive

Questions about outsurvives

What is outsurvives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Outsurvives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of outsurvive.

Words near outsurvives in the dictionary

  1. outsurpassed
  2. outsurpasses
  3. outsurpassing
  4. outsurvive
  5. outsurvived
  6. outsurvives
  7. outsurviving
  8. outswagger
  9. outswaggered
  10. outswaggering
  11. outswaggers

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