outlive

Word family (noun) liveliness living livelihood (adjective) live lively living liveable (verb) live outlive relive liven up (adverb) live

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishoutliveout‧live /aʊtˈlɪv/ verb [transitive] 1 LIVING/ALIVEto remain alive after someone else has died She outlived her husband by 20 years.2 EXISTto continue to exist after something else has ended or disappeared → outlast Good books have a way of outliving those who want to ban them.3 → outlive its/your usefulness→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusoutlive• He had outlived both James Dean and Montgomery Clift but his film career was floundering.• I have outlived both my sons.• How did it outlive George Meany?• Emely Sophia had outlived her father, William Charles, by almost seventy years.• Even the message on the answering machine has outlived its usefulness, providing no current or future information.• On average women outlive men by more than six and a half years.• Damaris lived to a very great age and outlived not only her husband but all her five children.• Women usually outlive their husbands.• Retired people are beginning to worry that they will outlive their savings.• Daniels said a number of programs that were being recommended for elimination had outlived their usefulness while others had never been successful.

单词	outlive
释义	outlive Word family (noun) liveliness living livelihood (adjective) live lively living liveable (verb) live outlive relive liven up (adverb) live From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishoutliveout‧live /aʊtˈlɪv/ verb [transitive] 1 LIVING/ALIVEto remain alive after someone else has died She outlived her husband by 20 years.2 EXISTto continue to exist after something else has ended or disappeared → outlast Good books have a way of outliving those who want to ban them.3 → outlive its/your usefulness→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusoutlive• He had outlived both James Dean and Montgomery Clift but his film career was floundering.• I have outlived both my sons.• How did it outlive George Meany?• Emely Sophia had outlived her father, William Charles, by almost seventy years.• Even the message on the answering machine has outlived its usefulness, providing no current or future information.• On average women outlive men by more than six and a half years.• Damaris lived to a very great age and outlived not only her husband but all her five children.• Women usually outlive their husbands.• Retired people are beginning to worry that they will outlive their savings.• Daniels said a number of programs that were being recommended for elimination had outlived their usefulness while others had never been successful.
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