Definition of "outlast" []

• To last longer than. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Think in terms of day by day needs -- Not hoarding to 'outlast' a depression."
• "Wiley kittens can almost always outlast Navy Seals with sledgehammers."
• "But even under the cold gray skies there are unseen people out there fighting to make something beautiful that might outlast the chill winds that blow through the concrete canyons that define the city."