overlive
Britishverb
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to live longer than (another person)
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to survive or outlive (an event)
Example Sentences
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All the wretchedness of her life seems to have culminated, the little doubts she has thrust out or tried to overlive.
From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie
Cannot you think of this, dear John, and try to bear it and overlive it for their sakes?
From Fated to Be Free by Ingelow, Jean
If we could only use folks we love, while they do live, with the like loving reverence as we shall do after they be dead, if we overlive them!
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out To deathless pain?
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
Only pity that I cannot live to hear of Ste. Esclairmonde—nay, but then I must overlive thee, mind I should not love that.’
From The Caged Lion by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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