English

Verb

overlive ‎(third-person singular simple present overlives, present participle overliving, simple past and past participle overlived)

1. (transitive) To survive.
2. (transitive) To outlive; live longer than.
   • 1624, John Donne, "Meditation VII":

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

   • 1891, Charlotte M. Yonge, Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland, ch. 31:

     "Her Majesty's life will never be safe for a moment while she lives; and what would become of us all did she overlive the Queen!"

3. (intransitive) To live too long.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     Why do I overlive?

     Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out

     to deathless pain?

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

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