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outsleep

/out-sleep/US // ˌaʊtˈslip //

睡眠之外,睡不着,睡眠不足,超时

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    out·slept, out·sleep·ing.

    • : to sleep through or later than.
    • : to sleep until the end of: to outsleep a thunderstorm.

Examples

  • Oh to drink of it again, and to lay her head upon the pillow and outsleep the day!

  • “Your pardon, Don José, that I outsleep the camp,” he muttered haltingly.

  • Yet even he could not outsleep the reluctant lingering of night.

  • Not a morning did I outsleep the reveille; nor once missed matins in the Cathedral.