outstay

🇺🇸 /ˌaʊtˈsteɪ/ 🇬🇧 /ˌaʊtˈsteɪ/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags RARE
verb
R

To stay somewhere longer than someone else or longer than is necessary or desired.

Our guests outstayed their welcome by arriving early and leaving late.

translation

v. To stay somewhere longer than someone else or longer than is necessary or desired.

Word Forms

3rd Present outstays
Past outstayed
Perfect outstayed
Progressive outstaying