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outsurviving

outsurviving is the present participle and gerund 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 outsurviving

What is outsurviving the present participle and gerund of?
Outsurviving is the present participle and gerund of outsurvive.

Words near outsurviving in the dictionary

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

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