outlive someone

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• outlive — UK [ˌaʊtˈlɪv] / US [aʊtˈlɪv] verb [transitive] Word forms outlive : present tense I/you/we/they outlive he/she/it outlives present participle outliving past tense outlived past participle outlived 1) to live longer than someone else She outlived… …   English dictionary

• outlive — out|live [autˈlıv] v [T] 1.) to remain alive after someone else has died ▪ She outlived her husband by twenty years. 2.) to continue to exist after something else has ended or disappeared →↑outlast ▪ Good books have a way of outliving those who… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• outlive — verb (T) 1 to live longer than someone else: She outlived her husband by twenty years. 2 to continue to exist after something else has ended or disappeared: The military regime has outlived its statutory term by three years. | outlive its… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• outlive — out|live [ aut lıv ] verb transitive 1. ) to live longer than someone else: She outlived her husband by two years. 2. ) to continue to exist after something else has stopped: His general theories have outlived those of his contemporaries …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• outlive — [ˌaʊtˈlɪv] verb [T] 1) to live longer than someone else 2) to continue to exist after something else has stopped …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• dancing on someone's grave — If you will dance on someone s grave, you will outlive or outlast them and will celebrate their demise …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• stand up to someone/something — 1 she stood up to her parents: DEFY, confront, challenge, resist, take on, put up a fight against, argue with, take a stand against. 2 the old house has stood up to the war: WITHSTAND, survive, come through (unsca …   Useful english dictionary

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• survive — /seuhr vuyv /, v., survived, surviving. v.i. 1. to remain alive after the death of someone, the cessation of something, or the occurrence of some event; continue to live: Few survived after the holocaust. 2. to remain or continue in existence or… …   Universalium

• Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Sketch of Søren Kierkegaard by Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840 Full name Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Born 5 May 1813 Copenhagen, Denmark Died 11 November 1855 …   Wikipedia

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