verb (used with object), out·lived, out·liv·ing. 1.to live longer than; survive (a person, period, etc.): She outlived her husband by many years.
2.to outlast; live or last through: The ship outlived the storm. He hopes to outlive the stigma of his imprisonment.
Origin: 1425–75; late Middle English outliven. See
out-,
live1 Related forms out·liv·er, noun