outlive
verb (used with object)
to live longer than; survive (a person, period, etc.).
had been outliving
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past perfect progressiveof outlive.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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As for her own departed husbands, Marina Kirilovna liked to say that the only joy she’d got out of living with them had been outliving them.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2010
