Overlive

//oʊvəɹˈlɪv// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To survive; to live past. transitive
  2. 2
    To outlive; live longer than. transitive

    "[M]y disease cannot survive me, I may overlive it."

  3. 3
    To live too long. intransitive

    "Why do I overlive? Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out to deathless pain?"

  4. 4
    To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively. intransitive

Synonyms

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survivesurvive

Example

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"[M]y disease cannot survive me, I may overlive it."

Etymology

From Middle English overliven, from Old English oferlibban (“to survive”), equivalent to over- + live. Cognate with Dutch overleven (“to survive”), German überleben (“to survive, outlive”), Swedish överleva (“to survive, outlive, outlast”).

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