Alive vs Outlive - What's the difference?

As an adjective alive

is having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

(en adjective)

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent

to keep the fire alive'; to keep the affections ' alive .

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged.

The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. -- .

Sprightly; lively; brisk.

Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.

Tremblingly alive to nature's laws. -- .

As intensifier, of all living.

Northumberland was the proudest man alive . --.

* As intensifier, used colloquially "man alive!", "sakes alive!". * Alive always follows the noun which it qualifies.

* dead

* alive and kicking * aliveness * Christ alive * dead or alive * eat someone alive * keep hope alive * man alive * snakes alive

(outliv)

To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

* 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII .:

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

* 2003 , Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving, page 1:

If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.

To live through or past (a given time).

* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :

This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived .

To surpass in duration; outlast.

To live longer; continue to live.

* (live longer than ): survive

* (live longer than ): predecease

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