MEANING
To continue or survive longer than another person, object, event, or condition.
Use it for
Show what remains after something else has disappeared.Compare what survives with what fades, fails, or disappears first.
Words that belong together
- outlast a storm
- outlast a rival
- outlast its maker
On the page
The stone bridge outlasted the villages that once flanked it.
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Word forms
- Base
- outlast
- Past tense
- outlasted
- Past participle
- outlasted
- Present participle
- outlasting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- outlast
- Present continuous
- am/is/are outlasting
- Present perfect
- have/has outlasted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been outlasting
- Past
- outlasted
- Past continuous
- was/were outlasting
- Past perfect
- had outlasted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been outlasting
- Future
- will outlast
- Future continuous
- will be outlasting
- Future perfect
- will have outlasted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been outlasting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
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Usage notes
Usually takes the person or thing that ends sooner as its object; it emphasizes duration rather than victory.
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