outlast

verb

out·​last ˌau̇t-ˈlast 

outlasted; outlasting; outlasts

transitive verb

: to last longer than : to continue to exist, be active, etc., longer than (someone or something)

BookCourt … withstood the 1999 opening of a Barnes & Noble store just a few blocks away and even outlasted the owners' marriage.

—Eli Rosenberg

Synonyms of outlast

• survive
• outlive

Examples of outlast in a Sentence

I truly hope this car will outlast our previous one

your work will probably outlast you

Recent Examples on the Web

The course designed by Robert Trent Jones has hosted three major championships since 1965, most recently in 2018, when Brooks Koepka outlasted Tiger Woods and Adam Scott to win that year’s PGA Championship. — Dennis Esser, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

If the United States hopes to compete successfully with China in the coming decades, Congress—not the executive branch alone—must establish a durable framework that can outlast political cycles. — Bill Cassidy, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2026

So nature has already shown us a potential pathway to building a time capsule that will outlast geological changes. — Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2026

New protocols for hull cleaning and global monitoring are crucial to mitigate environmental fallout that will long outlast the conflict. — Monica Sanders, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1570, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for outlast

• aghast
• amassed
• biassed
• broadcast
• bypassed
• downcast
• forecast
• foremast
• harassed
• holdfast
• mainmast
• newscast

Kids Definition

outlast

verb

out·​last

(ˈ)au̇t-ˈlast

: to last longer than : survive