outsleep

English

Etymology

From out- ‎ sleep.

Verb

outsleep (third-person singular simple present outsleeps, present participle outsleeping, simple past and past participle outslept)

1. (transitive) To sleep longer than or beyond.
   • 1874, James Thomson, chapter XIII, in The City of Dreadful Night:

     And often in his secret soul he prays
     To sleep through barren periods unaware,
     Arousing at some longed-for date of pleasure;
     Which having passed and yielded him small treasure,
     He would outsleep another term of care.

   • 1978, Audrey Sutherland, Paddling My Own Canoe:

     I stay in bed, outsleeping the rain and reading.

Anagrams

• eelpouts, peelouts, sleep out, sleepout