outlive
verb (used with object)
to live longer than; survive (a person, period, etc.).
were outliving
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past progressiveof outlive.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Because of the resulting food shortage, the smaller-beaked medium ground finches — who didn't try to compete with the bigger birds for large seeds — were outliving their larger-beaked brethren.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2016
Seventy years later, average life expectancy had increased by twenty-five years, but females were outliving males by an average of about four years.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut
