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单词 outsleep
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outsleepv.

Brit. /ˌaʊtˈsliːp/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈslip/
Inflections: Past tense and past participle outslept;
Forms: see out- prefix and sleep v.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: out- prefix, sleep v.
Etymology: < out- prefix + sleep v. With sense 2 compare sleep v.
1. transitive. To sleep beyond (a specified time, etc.). Also occasionally reflexive: to oversleep. Now rare.In quot. a1563 figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > sleep beyond (a specific time)
oversleep1526
outsleepa1563
a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1985) ii. 96 My five boddyly wytes I have ongodly kepte; The workes of charyte in maner I have owtslepte.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 358 I feare we shall outsleepe the comming morne, As much as wee this night haue ouerwatcht. View more context for this quotation
1647 in Rec. Colony & Plantation N. Haven (1857) 317 He came & mett ym that walked the rownds in the mrket place, and at another time fell asleepe and outslept himselfe.
1808 J. Hurdis Poems 55 A careful maid, Who fears she has outslept the custom'd hour, And leaves her chamber blushing.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xxx. 139 [A] babe, that had outslept his wont.
1992 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 17 Oct. 132 In Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust, Tony Last outsleeps ‘his usual hour’ by two days and is thereby condemned forever to read Dickens in the jungle.
2. transitive. To sleep (a period of time, etc.) out or to an end; to overcome through sleep; to sleep (something) off.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > for a period of time
sleep1565
outsleep1608
sleep1623
1608 J. Day Law-trickes i. sig. A3 But when deiected minds, Out slept the golden pleasure of the night: My serious meditations haue out-watch'd, The glorious tapers that attend the Moone.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 313 Where on his bed of wool and matted leaves He has outslept the winter.
1827 C. M. Sedgwick Hope Leslie II. vi. 110 One of the other men, either aroused by his comrade's voice, or having outslept the fumes of the liquor, started up.
1862 Mrs. Malcolm tr. G. Freytag Pict. German Life I. 172 When he had outslept his drunkenness he roused himself.
1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) xiii. 33 He would outsleep another term of care.
1905 B. H. Latrobe Latrobe i. 26 I am ashamed of my apathy, for I really outslept the remaining raptures of the night.
1961 E. Wilson Night Thoughts 46 We dream, my dear, we dream in vain to-night Of..outsleeping soon Our weariness, of turning mute from sleep To love.
3. transitive. To sleep longer than.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [verb (transitive)] > other specific conditions or actions
steep1591
snore1600
outsleep1627
1627 W. Hawkins Apollo Shroving ii. iv. 33 Hee outsnorts nine horses, and outsleepes tenne dormise.
1690 T. Shadewell Amorous Bigotte v Thou wouldst outsleep the seven sleepers.
1860 S. Robinson How to Live 217 He had outslept all the company.
1967 E. B. Nickerson Kayaks to Arctic xii. 113 They can outsleep me by hours.
2002 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 Jan. 3 Grace usually outsleeps her father at that hour, but she's teething so the routine is interrupted at the moment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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