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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outlive
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outlived...usefulness (=is no longer useful)
▪ As a commuter service, the ferry has outlived its usefulness .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
usefulness
▪ It also includes discouraging cultural traits that have outlived their usefulness and may be otherwise harmful to society.
▪ Daniels said a number of programs that were being recommended for elimination had outlived their usefulness while others had never been successful.
▪ In his view peace conferences were a waste of time; the old elm had outlived its usefulness.
▪ Even the message on the answering machine has outlived its usefulness, providing no current or future information.
▪ By contrast, the over-hyped Times Guide to 1992 now seems to have outlived its usefulness.
▪ In order to enhance his credibility Fedora was allowed to expose John Vassall who by then had outlived his usefulness.
▪ And when they have outlived their usefulness, they are slaughtered or sold cheaply for lab experiments.
▪ I question, personally, whether these inspectors have not outlived their usefulness.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Retired people are beginning to worry that they will outlive their savings.
▪ Women usually outlive their husbands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Damaris lived to a very great age and outlived not only her husband but all her five children.
▪ Daniels said a number of programs that were being recommended for elimination had outlived their usefulness while others had never been successful.
▪ 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.
▪ He had outlived both James Dean and Montgomery Clift but his film career was floundering.
▪ How did it outlive George Meany?
▪ I have outlived both my sons.
▪ On average women outlive men by more than six and a half years.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outlive

Outlive \Out*live"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Outlived; p. pr. & vb. n. Outliving.] To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

They live too long who happiness outlive.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outlive

"to live longer than," late 15c., from out (adv.) + live (v.). Related: Outlived; outliving.

Wiktionary
outlive

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive. 2 (context transitive English) To live through or past (a given time). 3 (context transitive English) To surpass in duration; outlast. 4 (context intransitive English) To live longer; continue to live.

WordNet
outlive

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

Wikipedia
Outlive

Outlive is a Brazilian real-time strategy computer game developed and produced by Continuum Entertainment. It is a mission-based real-time strategy game where the player controls either the human military or robot forces and attempts to eliminate all opposing forces. It was initially released in in Brazil (2001 for the rest of the world), and was the second and most successful product of Continuum. The game was one of the few Brazilian games to be published by a mainstream AAA publisher. It was published in the United States and Europe by Take-Two Interactive.

Usage examples of "outlive".

Lady Alannys had outlived her husband Lord Balon, who had seemed so hard and strong.

That was a signal to you that Blane had outlived his usefulness, that he was becoming a liability.

He himself had outlived the great Lews Therin Telamon, handing out praise for victories he could not have won himself and expecting others to lap it up.

Navy cryptologist wrote that the Naval Security Group had outlived its usefulness and that the precious money used to run it would be better spent elsewhere in the Navy.

Production has been abolished, and reproduced mass-media images circulate randomly and fragmentarily on their own, having outlived their ostensible purpose of creating demand and stimulating sales.

Feeling shock dim his mind, Tregare shook his head to clear it, and was reminded of his promise to Hawkman: that dal Nardo would not outlive this woman.

Pilar Ternera, it is she, but again with essential differences: Lara was never a prostitute, despite rumors to that effect, and Lara will probably outlive Pilar, who outlived the most longevous old ladies of my Caucasus, where it is not uncommon to find a Svanetian dowager of 120 years.

Let me assure you that whatever you may learn in this or any other course of public lectures,--and I trust you will learn a great deal,--the daily guidance, counsel, example, of your medical father, for such the Oath of Hippocrates tells you to consider your preceptor, will, if he is in any degree like him of whom I have spoken, be the foundation on which all that we teach is reared, and perhaps outlive most of our teachings, as in Dr.

But gradually the feeling about Ferdinand Lopez had died away, and his fate, though it had outlived the nominal nine days, had sunk into general oblivion before the end of the ninth week.

There was a pair of deltatheridiums, ratlike omnivores, neither marsupial nor placental, a unique line that would not outlive the dinosaurs.

That dull, inglorious empire had antedated or outlived Venice and Genoa, Florence and Siena, the England of Cromwell, the Holland of the Stadtholders, and the France of many revolutions, and all the fleeting democracies which sprang from these.

Spartacus decided the hollow on Vesuvius had outlived its usefulness and moved his legion out.

The amoeba outlives the tiger because it divides and continues in its immortal monotony.

The Lord of the Crossing had outlived seven wives and was now wed to his eighth, but he spoke of them only as bedwarmers and brood mares.

She outlived the horrors of the Revolution and speaks in her memoirs of the man Bertin.