(v. t.) To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.
Example Sentences:
(1) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(2) It is not only a healthcare issue but it also threatens someone's finances, the impact of which can often outlive the diagnosis itself.
(3) Towards the end, as entire eras wheeled past in a blur, I realised the programme itself would outlive me, and began desperately scrawling notes that described the broadcast's initial few centuries for the benefit of any descendants hoping to pick up from where I left off.
(4) We need to have a deeper conversation about what kind of a nation we want to be.” Less easy to dismiss are those who insist the movement has outlived its usefulness.
(5) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(6) Before Christmas, the prime minister said the RET may have outlived its usefulness and become a burden on business and on Thursday repeated his concerns in response to the announcement that Queensland government-owned Stanwell was mothballing its gas-fired Swanbank E power station in October.
(7) The PKK has been listed as a terrorist organisation in Germany since 1993, but many criticise the ban as a diplomatic gift to the Turkish government on behalf of the former chancellor Helmut Kohl that has outlived its relevance .
(8) The patients outliving myocardial infarction reached 69%; those surviving angor inestable, reached 79%, and the survivors of the no-coronary group, 92.5%.
(9) The system that sets public spending in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has outlived its usefulness and should be scrapped, peers said today.
(10) The truth appears to be that Page 3 has outlived its editorial purpose, which is how it should be.
(11) For example, in an early work on the German phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, La voix et le phénomène (Speech And Phenomena, 1967), Derrida argued that the philosophical emphasis on the "living present" concealed a dependence on the idea of death: I cannot use a sign - a word or a sentence, say - without implying that it pre-exists me and will outlive me.
(12) In strain combinations involving multiple non-H-2 disparities, neonatal skin grafts may survive significantly longer than adult grafts of similar genotype on normal adult hosts, and repeatedly outlive grafts of adult origin on immunosuppressed recipients.
(13) He says that many Scots think the union has outlived its purpose but that does not, I think, justify the breakup of this small island.
(14) It's also a rebuke to postwar and often postmodern French philosophers such as Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard and Foucault with whom he argued and all of whom he has outlived.
(15) He will never fill multiplexes, but his work will doubtless outlive most of the films that do – even now, while his career as a film-maker is only just beginning.
(16) So, since the Fed is the only official body trying to do anything, it's worth examining whether QE has outlived its usefulness.
(17) Some argue that in the age of Facebook and easyJet, the twin town idea has simply outlived its purpose.
(18) The ILC Compendium is "a snapshot of the older woman's life in the UK today", showing that many women outlive men, and suffer more poverty, illness, violence and abuse, and it calls for young women to campaign and make sure we don't become second-class citizens.
(19) Adaptation, once gained, outlives an interruption of registration of several weeks and is more marked in healthy subjects than in other groups.
(20) Unlike the shoe polish, tea towels and cheap china plates it stocks, Woolies has outlived its usefulness and many of its products can be bought more cheaply elsewhere.
Predecease
Definition:
(v. t.) To die sooner than.
(n.) The death of one person or thing before another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three predeceased him: one as an infant in 1948, another in a car crash in 1969 and a third from an Aids-related illness in 2005.
(2) Second, many elderly pet owners have made no arrangements for the pet if they predecease it or become unable to care for it.
(3) His loyal wife, Janet died in 1995, and his son also predeceased him; he leaves a stepson and stepdaughter.
(4) His daughter Maureen, also from his first marriage, predeceased him.
(5) I'm expecting to predecease my beloved husband, because I'll have worn myself out."
(6) Her two sons predeceased her, and she is survived by Jean and two granddaughters.
(7) Predeceased by two sons, he is survived by his wife, and three daughters.
(8) Kee had three marriages, of which the first two ended in divorce: to Janetta Woolley, by whom he had a daughter; to Cynthia Judah, by whom he had a daughter and two sons, of whom one predeceased him; and to Kate Trevelyan.
(9) In 5 cases, only 1 twin was sampled; in 2 because the second twin was female in the diagnosis of an X-linked disorder; in 1 because of technical failure, and in 2 the other twin had predeceased.
(10) The rich subdued glow of the picture, the light filling his wonderful old face, the subtle magnificence of his clothes, the dignity of his pose, with his hands clasped and his head turned patiently towards us as if bearing immense pain with tragic endurance: this painting would communicate agony and acceptance even if we knew nothing about Rembrandt's life, the spectacular success followed by bankruptcy and, by this time, the deaths of almost everyone he loved; his son Titus predeceased him in this same year.
(11) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 12 December 2009 Two wives, rather than one, predeceased Eric Boswell.
(12) Husain's wife, Fazila, whom he married in 1941, predeceased him, as did one of their children.
(13) • Two wives, rather than one, predeceased Eric Boswell ( Obituaries , 7 December, page 34).
(14) Dallas also had its clones, like Dynasty and Falcon Crest, but they all predeceased it.