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 News Cafe pushed Miami Beach to a new golden era that has outlasted its regular rises and falls. — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026

Orders that ship late, customers who go elsewhere and working capital locked into the wrong inventory are the losses that outlast the disruption itself. — Alex Saric, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Russell would play well enough in Edmonton to outlast McLellan and the general manager who acquired him, Peter Chiarelli. — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

No one had done this thorough a job to trace the legend’s origins and find out what is true and what is demonstrably false about it — and, more importantly, why the damn thing has outlasted nearly every other gossip item in the history of Hollywood. — Allen Salkin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 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