outlive

Word family

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++out·live /aʊtˈlɪv/ verb [transitive] 1 LIVING/ALIVEto remain alive after someone else has died 比…活得久 She outlived her husband by 20 years. 她比她丈夫多活了20年。2 EXISTto continue to exist after something else has ended or disappeared 比…经久 → outlast Good books have a way of outliving those who want to ban them. 优秀的书籍总是比那些想要禁掉它们的人更长寿。3 outlive its/your usefulness to become no longer useful 已不再有用 The docks have outlived their usefulness. 这些码头已经没用了。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

outlive• 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.

out·live verbChineseSyllable

has after died to else alive remain someone Corpus

outlive
out‧live /aʊtˈlɪv/