outsleep

verb

Etymology

From out- + sleep.

  1. inherited from *slēpaną — “to sleep
  2. inherited from *slāpan
  3. inherited from slēpan
  4. inherited from slepen
  5. prefixed as outsleep — “out + sleep

Definitions

  1. To sleep longer than or beyond.

    • 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.
    • I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.

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