OVERLIVE

Etymology

Verb

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

(transitive) To survive.

(transitive) To outlive; live longer than.

(intransitive) To live too long.

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

Anagrams

• overveil

Source: Wiktionary


O`ver*live", v. t.

Definition: To outlive. Sir P. Sidney. The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its political supermacy. Earle.

O`ver*live", v. i.

Definition: To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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