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everlast

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from everlasting, equivalent to ever + last.

  1. derived from *laistijaną✻
  2. derived from *laistijan✻
  3. derived from lǣstan
  4. derived from lasten
  5. compounded as everlast — “ever + last”

Definitions

  1. To last always or forever

    To last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.

    • [...] as he flew through the air / to smother the blast / he reached a state of grace / that will everlast [...]
    • They had survived several fires in their twenty years and probably would have everlasted but this had been exceptional.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA