outlive
verb/aʊtˈlɪv/
Frequency rank: #16,857 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
to live longer than another person or thing.
Example sentence
She managed to outlive all of her older siblings, reaching the age of 102.
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