overlive

verb /oʊvəɹˈlɪv/

1. To survive; to live past.

   transitive

2. To outlive; live longer than.

   transitive

   [M]y disease cannot survive me, I may overlive it.

3. To live too long.

   intransitive

   Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out to deathless pain?

   Why do I overlive?

4. To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

   intransitive

Where it comes from

From Middle English overliven, from Old English oferlibban (“to survive”), equivalent to over- + live. Cognate with Dutch overleven (“to survive”), German überleben (“to survive, outlive”), Swedish överleva (“to survive, outlive, outlast”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry overlive (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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