(ˈ) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ transitive verb
Etymology: Middle English outleven, from out- + leven, liven to live — more at live
1. : to live beyond or longer than : outlast , survive
has outlived the century
has outlived all his friends
a fiction which has outlived any usefulness it may have had — C.S.Lobingier
2.
a. : to survive the effects of : live through : overcome
the financial support which enabled the small man to outlive a bad harvest — G.G.Coulton
characters in history whose reputation has outlived the vicissitudes of time — London Calling
b. : to live down
repeated the story so often that I have never been able to outlive this joke on myself — David Fairchild
Synonyms:
outlast , survive : outlive stresses the fact of continuing alive or in existence longer than another, sometimes through a marked capacity for enduring and surmounting difficulty, sometimes not
outlived his brothers
universities are among the most persistent of human organizations — they outlive many political and social changes — J.B.Conant
outlast differs little from outlive , although it may stress capacity for endurance to a greater degree
their glory is that they have outlasted the conditions they observed — A.T.Quiller-Couch
the sweet sensations of returning health made me happy for a time; but such sensations seldom outlast convalescence — W.H.Hudson †1922
survive may be used of enduring, continuing in existence, or going on after the demise of something else or after some threatening event
the men surviving after the wreck
surviving his wife by several years
a first marriage did not survive the long years of wartime separation — H.H.Martin
a miracle that H.M.S. Marlborough survives, and this is due not only to the courage of the men who survive that first explosion, but equally to the attitude of the skipper himself — Peter Forster