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overlive

/ ˌəʊvəˈlɪv /

verb

  1. to live longer than (another person)
  2. to survive or outlive (an event)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The latter overlive the former; the former underlive the latter.

If it overlive this day of crumbling theologies, whence will come its reprieve?

Tyrwhitt substitutes to overlive, from the black-letter editions.

Tis even as we feared, for he saith there is no doubt that Madge is dying, nor shall she overlive many days.

All the wretchedness of her life seems to have culminated, the little doubts she has thrust out or tried to overlive.

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