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# outlive

«outlive» in Mova's school dictionary: **To live longer than someone else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (outlive, outlives, outlived, outliving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To live longer than someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#m1)

2) To last longer than something, or to keep going after it has stopped being useful: «The rule has outlived its purpose». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons «tortoises can outlive their owners» shows how long some animals live. In family life it is about which person lives longer. Phrases: «outlive its usefulness».

### examples

- Some tortoises outlive their owners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x1)
- Women often outlive men. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x2)
- Grandma outlived all her brothers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x3)
- This old law has outlived its usefulness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x4)
- Trees can outlive the people who plant them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x5)
- She was old and bent then; for fifty years had passed and she had outlived them all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x6)

### note

Regular verb. Prefix «out-» means «more than / longer than»: outlive, outrun, outgrow.

### In the corpora

- [Big parrots such as macaws and cockatoos can live over sixty years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/12/)
- [Some parrots live for over 60 years, so a pet parrot may outlive its owner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/233-animal-minds-clever-crows-ravens-jays-and-parrots/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «outlive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.