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
Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out To deathless pain?
From Paradise Lost by Milton, John
If it overlive this day of crumbling theologies, whence will come its reprieve?
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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 Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
O friends, I shall not overlive the day.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
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