Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sleep beyond.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To exceed in sleeping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
sleep longer than or beyond.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When he did recollect, he rose quietly, extinguished the gas and made the room as dark as possible, in hopes that Bovey might outsleep himself in the morning.
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Oh to drink of it again, and to lay her head upon the pillow and outsleep the day!
The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880
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Then, I thank God, I have vast blessings; I have preserved my eyes, ears, and teeth; I have no pain left; and I would bet with any dormouse that it cannot outsleep me.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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Christ may sleep when his church is in a storm, but he will not outsleep himself: the time, the set time to favour his distressed church, will come, Ps. cii.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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CHAPTER X. "I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn
The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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