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Definition of Outsleep
1. v. t. To exceed in sleeping.
Definition of Outsleep
1. Verb. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Outsleep
1. to sleep later than [v -SLEPT, -SLEEPING, -SLEEPS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outsleep
Literary usage of Outsleep
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Negro Culture in West Africa: A Social Study of the Negro Group of Vai by George Washington Ellis (1914)
"The second man denied that the speaker could outsleep him, and they made a bet
after appointing judges that each could outsleep the other. ..."
2. The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop (1883)
"... Woe and want thou canst outsleep; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep
makes ridiculous. BERRYING. 'MAY be true what I had heard,— Earth's a ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"... Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure; Which having passed and yielded
him small treasure, He would outsleep another term of care. ..."
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