everlast
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from everlasting, equivalent to ever + last.
Verb edit
everlast (third-person singular simple present everlasts, present participle everlasting, simple past and past participle everlasted)
- (intransitive, rare) To last always or forever; to continue, endure, or remain.
- 2009, Frank Seinsheimer, Poetical Commentary:
- [...] as he flew through the air / to smother the blast / he reached a state of grace / that will everlast [...]
- 2010, Sharyn Munro, The Woman on the Mountain:
- They had survived several fires in their twenty years and probably would have everlasted but this had been exceptional.