overlive
Verb
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Verb
overlive (overlives, present participle overliving; past and past participle overlived)
- (transitive) To survive.
- (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!"
- 1624, John Donne, "Meditation VII":
- (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?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- (intransitive) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.
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