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overlive

British

/ ˌəʊvəˈlɪv /

verb

to live longer than (another person)
to survive or outlive (an event)

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Why do I overlive, Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out To deathless pain?

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

Cannot you think of this, dear John, and try to bear it and overlive it for their sakes?

From Fated to Be Free by Jean Ingelow

O friends, I shall not overlive the day.

From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson

And how long did it take to overlive it?

From Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

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

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