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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 table Examples 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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Verb table
outlive
Simple Form
Present
I, you, we, they outlive
he, she, it outlives
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Past
I, you, he, she, it, we, they outlived
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have outlived
he, she, it has outlived
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had outlived
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will outlive
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have outlived
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Continuous Form
Present
I am outliving
he, she, it is outliving
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you, we, they are outliving
Past
I, he, she, it was outliving
you, we, they were outliving
Present perfect
I, you, we, they have been outliving
he, she, it has been outliving
Past perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been outliving
Future
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be outliving
Future perfect
I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been outliving
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