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What does outlive mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.
  2. (transitive) To live through or past (a given time).
  3. (transitive) To surpass in duration; outlast.
  4. (intransitive) To live longer; continue to live.
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Given an adequate supply of water, air and light, a properly maintained bonsai should outlive a full-size tree of the same species.
They meant, of course, to say that our souls outlive us, that we are more than blood and bone and corporality.
You know, I have to believe that this particular character will outlive me.
The demographics of participants in this study reflect current population demographics in which women outlive their husbands and then live alone.
The trees overshot their expected height and girth, and have now begun to outlive their lifespan.
But as Regency exuberance yielded to Victorian gentility, his style did not move with public taste, and he began to outlive his popularity.

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