overlive
Britishverb
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to live longer than (another person)
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to survive or outlive (an event)
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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 Charlotte Mary Yonge
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 Amanda Minnie Douglas
I will try to forgive the wrong-doer and forget the wrong, but oh! mother, mother, it will be very hard to overlive it!
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out To deathless pain?
From Paradise Lost by John Milton
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 Emily Sarah Holt
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