Synonyms of outstay

outstay

verb

1

as in to overstay

Related Words

• overstay
• linger
• loiter
• dawdle
• wait
• await
• remain
• hang on
• hold on
• hang around
• stay
• dwell
• stick around
• tarry
• dally
• abide

Dissimilar Words

• leave
• depart
• move
• go
• quit
• cut out
• get off
• exit
• take off
• go off
• bail
• clear out
• walk out
• pack (up or off)
• escape
• pull out
• peel off
• bail out
• pike (out or off)
• push off
• push on
• flee
• get out
• skip
• fly
• clear off
• shove (off)
• run away
• abandon
• evacuate
• vamoose
• forsake
• buzz (off)
• book
• bug out
• vacate
• abscond
• decamp
• desert
• scram
• scat

2

as in to outlast

Related Words

• outlast
• outlive
• persist (beyond)
• last (beyond)
• abide (beyond)
• hold (past)
• endure (past)
• survive
• hold out (past)
• outwear
• perpetuate
• draw out
• succeed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of outstay

The album moves like a DJ set, never letting a sound outstay its welcome. — Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

Better to outstay your welcome than give it all up too soon. — Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

Lexx reinvented itself each season, and Season 3 — set on the planets of Fire and Water — didn't outstay its welcome at 13 episodes. — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2025

And at less than two hours with an intermission, the show doesn’t outstay its welcome. — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025

The overbearing Dawn, who has outstayed her welcome in what was supposed to be a temporary lockdown solution, is not Joe’s only headache at home. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2025

Social media trends come and go, but one craze that appears to have outstayed its welcome is the desire to mock millennials (people born between 1981 and 1996). — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025