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# outlive

verb (outlive, outlives, outlived, outliving)

«outlive» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To live longer than someone else. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#m1)
2. To last longer than something, or to keep going after it has stopped being useful: «The rule has outlived its purpose». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science lessons «tortoises can outlive their owners» shows how long some animals live. In family life it is about which person lives longer. Phrases: «outlive its usefulness».

### Examples

- Some tortoises outlive their owners. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x1)
- Women often outlive men. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x2)
- Grandma outlived all her brothers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x3)
- This old law has outlived its usefulness. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x4)
- Trees can outlive the people who plant them. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x5)
- She was old and bent then; for fifty years had passed and she had outlived them all. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/#x6)

### Note

Regular verb. Prefix «out-» means «more than / longer than»: outlive, outrun, outgrow.

## In Jewish tradition

It says that Israel stayed faithful to God as long as Joshua and the elders who knew God's wonders were alive.

**Interpretation.** Tradition notes that faithfulness often depends on those who remember God's deeds, and that it faded when that generation passed.

### Examples

- And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that He had wrought for Israel. (Prophets JOS.24.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outlive/#x1)
- And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD, that He had wrought for Israel. (Prophets JDG.2.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outlive/#x2)

### Note

Regular verb. Prefix «out-» means «more than / longer than»: outlive, outrun, outgrow.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «outlive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/outlive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «outlive» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/O/outlive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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