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View definitions for outstay

outstay

verb as in outlast

Strongest matches

Strong matches

verb as in outlive

verb as in outwear

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Weak match

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Example Sentences

"The worst thing you can do with a comedy is to outstay your welcome."

From Salon

Southgate may have sensed it himself as he talked of “not outstaying my welcome” before a Nations League meeting with Hungary at Molineux.

From BBC

Because I am constantly looking for reasons to get rid of old things, old ways of thinking and being that have outstayed their usefulness, I’m drawn to spring cleaning as an annual rite.

Or lead her to conclude, given the at best tepid public support of her colleagues, that she has outstayed her welcome.

From BBC

Scenes almost inevitably outstay their welcomes, as if Heggie and McNally couldn’t resist just one more lush verse; on Tuesday, I often found myself simultaneously gripped and bored.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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