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Webster 1913 Edition
Outsleep
Out-sleep′
,Verb.
T.
To exceed in sleeping.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Outsleep
OUTSLEE'P
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
outsleep
outsleep
English
Verb
outsleep (third-person singular simple present outsleeps, present participle outsleeping, simple past and past participle outslept)
- (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XIII
- And often in his secret soul he prays
- To sleep through barren periods unaware,
- Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure;
- Which having passed and yielded him small treasure,
- He would outsleep another term of care.
- 1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe
- I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XIII