outstay
verb/ˌaʊtˈsteɪ/
/ˌaʊtˈsteɪ/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they outstay | /ˌaʊtˈsteɪ/ /ˌaʊtˈsteɪ/ |
| he / she / it outstays | /ˌaʊtˈsteɪz/ /ˌaʊtˈsteɪz/ |
| past simple outstayed | /ˌaʊtˈsteɪd/ /ˌaʊtˈsteɪd/ |
| past participle outstayed | /ˌaʊtˈsteɪd/ /ˌaʊtˈsteɪd/ |
| -ing form outstaying | /ˌaʊtˈsteɪɪŋ/ /ˌaʊtˈsteɪɪŋ/ |
- Oxford Collocations DictionaryOutstay is used with these nouns as the object:
- welcome
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Idioms
See outstay in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryoutstay/overstay your welcome
- to stay somewhere as a guest longer than you are wanted
- Sensing that he had outstayed his welcome, he quickly said his goodbyes and left.
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