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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outlast
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Other restaurants have come and gone in the neighborhood, but Shien's has outlasted them all.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although awareness outlasts attention, it is by attending that one arrives at, maintains and renews it.
▪ Dissidents in Havana believe his regime would not long outlast the lifting of sanctions.
▪ From his Godlike prominence, Ward could see the truth: Athens can not outlast the barbarians.
▪ The employers felt that designated counsellors had outlasted their usefulness.
▪ They outlasted Oakland, battled past Seattle and survived the last steps of a marathon Game 1 with the Mets.
▪ We asked Volvo, famed for cars that outlast the hardiest perennials, to find a solution.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outlast

Outlast \Out*last"\, v. t. To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outlast

"to last longer than," 1570s, from out (adv.) + last (v.). Related: Outlasted; outlasting.

Wiktionary
outlast

vb. (context transitive English) to live, last or remain longer than something else

WordNet
outlast

v. live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years" [syn: outlive, survive]

Wikipedia
Outlast

Outlast is a first-person survival horror video game developed and published by Red Barrels. The game revolves around a freelance investigative journalist, Miles Upshur, who decides to investigate a remote psychiatric hospital situated deep in the mountains of Lake County, Colorado. The Whistleblower DLC centers on Waylon Park, the man who led Miles there in the first place.

Outlast was released for Microsoft Windows on September 4, 2013, and for PlayStation 4 on February 4, 2014. Outlast received generally positive reviews from critics, and it was praised for its horror elements and gameplay. Linux and OS X versions were later released on March 31, 2015.

Usage examples of "outlast".

On another occasion I had helped the Minids outlast a siege of giant hyenas by reciting a story and obediently shooting one of the besiegers with my besottedness to wholesale ingestion by a leopard.

You would be wasting biosynthetic energy, which otherwise could go into making babies, if you kept one part of your body in such great repair that it outlasted all your other parts and your resultant expected life span.

But the instinct to live outlasts human nature in these creatures, and cancels fear.

Whether Scots tenacity could outlast English hunger and disgruntlement remained to be seen.

Our horse is smaller and shabby-looking, but it will outpull and outlast any other horse in the world.

Practising chemical warfare against pests can never take the place of the three Os of tiny game hunting: Observe, Outwit, and Outlast.

Thus it is that symbols, outlast their explanations, as many have done in Masonry, and ignorance and rashness substitute new ones.

On any other theory than this, that there is present in the world an intention of progress which outlasts individuals, and even races, I cannot account for the fact that, while civilizations decay and pass away, and human systems go to pieces, ideas remain and accumulate.

He thought of her - still as from a distance at which Estella had placed him - and knew that she not only had a disquieting beauty, but cleverness and courage, which are qualities that outlast beauty and make a woman powerful for ever.

But there it was that the tyrant was waiting for me, and it was not long before I felt that my strength would not outlast that of the winds.

All-Wise nourishes them in season, and their span outlasts all other living things in creation.

Will you credit me when I tell you he carries his infatuation so far, that he has been investing in Japanese and Chinese Loans, because they are less meat-eaters than others, and vegetarians are more stable, and outlast us all!

And they followed such worthless assurances with warnings that they could easily survive a nuclear-bacteri ological war, for their population was so much greater than ours that it could not help but outlast us.

And they followed such worthless assurances with warnings that they could easily survive a nuclear-bacteri-ological war, for their population was so much greater than ours that it could not help but outlast us.

I wonder, when ye were at it, that ye didna rather think of bigging another frae the fundament, for I'm thinking the walls are no o' a capacity of strength to outlast this seating.