outstay

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stay beyond or longer than. transitive
    — Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman..."

词形变化

outstays present,singular,third-person outstaying participle,present outstayed participle,past outstayed past

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English stay
English outstay
From out- + stay.
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