Overlive
Origin
From Middle English overliven, from Old English oferlibban ("to survive"), equivalent to - + live. Cognate with Dutch overleven ("to survive"), German überleben ("to survive, outlive"), Swedish överleva ("to survive, outlive, outlast").
Full definition of overlive
Verb
- (transitive) To survive.
- (transitive) To outlive; live longer than.
- 1624, John Donne, "Meditation VII":My 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!"
- (intransitive) To live too long.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:Why do I overlive?Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened outto deathless pain?
- (intransitive) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.