overlive

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/oʊvəɹˈlɪv/
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/oʊvəɹˈlɪv/ · /əʊvəˈlɪv/

Definition of overlive

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To survive; to live past.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To survive; to live past.
  2. (transitive)To outlive; live longer than.
    “[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!"”
  3. (intransitive)To live too long.
    “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.”
  4. (intransitive)To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

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Etymology

From Middle English overliven, from Old English oferlibban (“to survive”), equivalent to over- + live. Cognate with Dutch overleven (“to survive”), German überleben (“to survive, outlive”), Swedish överleva (“to survive, outlive, outlast”).

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