Meaning of overlive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To survive; to live past.
   transitive
2. To outlive; live longer than.
   transitive
3. To live too long.
   intransitive
4. To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.
   intransitive

Examples

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

“"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!"”

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

“The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage⟳ Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.”

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