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Synonyms for outlive

survive

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Synonyms for outlive

to live, exist, or remain longer than

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Synonyms for outlive

live longer than

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It may be rendered into English thus: "May your celestial majesty outlive the sun, eleven moons and a half!" To this the king returned some answer, which, although I could not understand, yet I replied as I had been directed: FLUFT DRIN YALERICK DWULDOM PRASTRAD MIRPUSH, which properly signifies, "My tongue is in the mouth of my friend;" and by this expression was meant, that I desired leave to bring my interpreter; whereupon the young man already mentioned was accordingly introduced, by whose intervention I answered as many questions as his majesty could put in above an hour.
Men outlive their love, but they don't outlive the consequences of their recklessness."
A ruddy and lusty old dame, who delights in all weathers and seasons, and is likely to outlive all her children yet.
Miss Reade says she always loves to see him sitting there because it gives her such a deep and lasting sense of the beauty and strength of love which can thus outlive time and death.
Who knows all its awful perhapses,--those shudderings and tremblings, which it can no more live down than it can outlive its own eternity!
No troubles came that we could not outlive, till this year brought them; then came they all at once, as one might say, and overwhelmed us.
But the poetry of despair will not outlive despair itself.