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out⋅last

[out-last, -lahst]
–verb (used with object)
1. to endure or last longer than: The pyramids outlasted the civilization that built them.
2. to live longer than; outlive.

Origin:
1565–75; out- + last 2
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out·last   (out-lāst')   
tr.v.   out·last·ed, out·last·ing, out·lasts
To last longer than.
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Word Origin & History

outlast 
"to last longer than," 1573, from out + last (v.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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