verbWord forms: -sleeps, -sleeping or -slept(transitive)
to sleep longer than
outsleep in American English
(ˌautˈslip)
transitive verbWord forms: -slept, -sleeping
1.
to sleep through or later than (a specified time)
2.
to sleep until the end of
to outsleep a thunderstorm
Word origin
[1580–90; out- + sleep]This word is first recorded in the period 1580–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: classical, critical, motor, scramble, stigmaout- is a prefixal use of the adverb out, occurring in various senses in compounds (outcast; outcome; outside), and serving also to form many transitive verbs denoting a going beyond, surpassing,or outdoing in the particular action indicated (outbid; outdo; outgeneral; outlast; outstay; outrate)