0 past simple and past participle of outlive --
1 to live or exist longer than someone or something: --
He outlived all of his brothers.
These institutions then outlived the social structures that created them and maintained differences in self-motivated political participation decades after their creation.
This purpose outlived the immediate phase of persecution.
And this only because we are old, because we have outlived all our friends.
The historical traditions of decentralism and regional identity which outlived the advent of the large-scale nation state have proved very diverse.
Such a situation could arise when, for example, a pensioner outlived his successor, and the latter's widow also became entitled to a pension.
Both also, through their sheer physical tenacity, outlived most of their favourites and advisers and in a sense outlived their own times.
But, if the weaknesses of the jobber system had become apparent by 1918, it was far from clear that it had outlived its use.
Essentialist categories of male and female have long outlived their potential to contribute to a dynamic and evolving study of gender.
