outstay Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb stay too long
    overstay.
    • overstay or outstay one's welcome
  2. verb surpass in staying power
    • They outstayed their competitors

WordNet


Out*stay" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To stay beyond or longer than.
    She concluded to outstay him. Mad. D' Arblay.

Webster 1913