outsleep
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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, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night:
- 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.