verb [VN]
1 to live longer than sb:
He outlived his wife by three years.
2 to continue to exist after sth else has ended or disappeared:
The machine had outlived its usefulness (= was no longer useful).
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for outlive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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