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Outlive vs Outlived - What's the difference?

outlive | outlived |

As verbs the difference between outlive and outlived

is that outlive is to live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive while outlived is (outlive).

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)

    outlived

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (outlive)

  • 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)