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outlive

 verb
     
out‧live [transitive]
1 to remain alive after someone else has died:
She outlived her husband by twenty years.
2 to continue to exist after something else has ended or disappeared [↪ outlast]:
Good books have a way of outliving those who want to ban them.
3

outlive its/your usefulness

to become no longer useful:
The docks have outlived their usefulness.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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