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outsleep en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + sleep.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
   • I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading. 1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe:
   • 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. 1874, James Thomson, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night:

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Relateds

oversleep · undersleep