Outlast
[aʊt'lɑːst] or [,aʊt'læst]
Definition
(v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.
Editor: Matt
Definition
v.t. to last longer than.
Inputed by Bobbie
Examples
- Mas'r Davy, it'll outlast all the treasure in the wureld. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Howe sewed the seams of two woolen suits with it, one for himself, and one for Fisher, and it was declared that the mechanical sewing was so well done that it promised to outlast the cloth. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- These rascals were all on foot, but no matter, they were always up to time--they can outrun and outlast a donkey. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Here is a mine of truth, which, however vigorously it may be worked, is likely to outlast our coal. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We repined that the pyramids had outlasted the embalmed body of their builder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The hearing of all this, and a good deal more, outlasted the banquet some time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- None but first-class timber was used, and such shingles outlasted far those made by machinery with their cross-grain cut. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is this that Bergson means when he tells us that a philosopher's intuition always outlasts his system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Faye