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Outlie vs Outlive - What's the difference?

outlie | outlive |

As verbs the difference between outlie and outlive

is that outlie is (rare|transitive) to tell more or better lies than or outlie can be (rare) to lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery while outlive is to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

outlie

English

Etymology 1

From out-'' and ''lie in the sense of "tell a lie".

Verb

  • (rare) To tell more or better lies than.
  • Etymology 2

    From out'' and ''lie in the sense of "be located".

    Verb

  • (rare) To lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery.
  • Usage notes
    * This verb is fairly rare; more common are the derived noun outlier'' (commonly found in the plural form ''outliers'') and participial adjective ''outlying .
    Derived terms
    *outlier *outlying

    outlive

    English

    Verb

    (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (live longer than ): survive

    Antonyms

    * (live longer than ): predecease

    Derived terms

    * (l)