outsleep

[ out-sleep ]

verb (used with object)

, out·slept, out·sleep·ing.

1. to sleep through or later than (a specified time).
2. to sleep until the end of:

   to outsleep a thunderstorm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of outsleep¹

First recorded in 1580–90; out- + sleep

Example Sentences

After sunset they gradually awake and proceed to ravage any fruit preserves which may be within reach, committing serious depredations while the owners outsleep the moon.

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Not a morning did I outsleep the reveille; nor once missed matins in the Cathedral.

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“Your pardon, Don José, that I outsleep the camp,” he muttered haltingly.

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Yet even he could not outsleep the reluctant lingering of night.

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"I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn As much as we this night have overwatched!"

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