Outendure

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To continue existing or enduring for a longer time than another person, thing, or situation does
2. To survive or hold out beyond the length of some other rival, object, or hardship
3. Lasting past the point at which something else gives way, fades, or comes to an end

Etymology: "Outendure" is formed from the prefix "out-" added to the verb "endure," and its meaning follows directly from that pairing. "Endure" comes from Latin "indurare," meaning to harden or make hard, and it reached English through Old French "endurer." In English it came to mean to bear something painful, then to continue existing over time. Adding "out-" in the sense of "beyond" or "more than" gives the verb its sense of lasting longer than something else. This pattern of "out-" plus a verb is a productive English one, used to create comparisons of performance or duration, such as "outlast," "outrun," and "outlive." The formation is transparent: someone or something that outendures another simply keeps going past the point where the other gives out.