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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To last longer than.
  • transitive verb To overcome by continuing to perform well for a longer period.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To last longer than; exceed in duration; outlive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive to live, last or remain longer than something else

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb live longer than

Etymologies

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out- +‎ last

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