Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sit beyond the time of.
- To sit longer than (another person); tire out in sitting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remain sitting, or in session, longer than, or beyond the time of; to outstay.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remain
sitting , or insession , longer than, or beyond the time of; tooutstay .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, at least he did not outlive his “nemesis”, whom he had managed outsit in the House, Margaret Thatcher.
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In the past, his most usual strategy had been to outsit the enemy.
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Or, perhaps that gentleman was only a pretext, and the young man's experienced eye had read that any attempt to outsit the learned assistant editor was foredoomed to failure.
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Did he outsit the maids and men around his hearth and watch the dying fire with no other companions than his sleeping dogs, fancy placed a scar-let-cloaked figure on the cushion at his feet and raised at his knee a face of sweetest friendliness, whose flower-blue eyes brightened or gloomed in response to his lightest mood ...
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Yet there are tourists who cannot outsit one performance, and have no desire to attend a second.
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The two men pretended meanwhile for half an hour to outsit each other conveniently; and the end -- at that rate -- might have been distant had not the tension in some degree yielded to the arrival of a friend of M. de
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Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her.
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Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her.
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Dacier could allow Mr. Hepburn to outsit him; and he left them, proud of his absolute confidence in her.
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They both tarried so long, "added Johnson, with a laugh," that I was fain to marvel if each were essaying to outsit the other; but if so,
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