outwait
English edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
outwait (third-person singular simple present outwaits, present participle outwaiting, simple past and past participle outwaited)
Quotations edit
- 1977, Nathaniel Richard Nash, East Wind, Rain:
- He tried to outwait the stillness, hoping somebody would say something.
- 2005, L. J. Andrew Villalon, Donald J. Kagay, The Hundred Years War:
- By successfully blockading a fortified site, the attackers simply needed to outwait its inhabitants, who daily watched their food supply dwindle . . .