Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To survive; to live past.

  2. (transitive)To outlive; live longer than.

  3. (intransitive)To live too long.

  4. (intransitive)To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

Origin

From Middle English overliven, from Old English oferlibban (“to survive”), equivalent to o

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”).

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Forms

overlives, overliving, overlived, overlived
Base formoverlive · to overlive
3rd person singularoverlives
Present participleoverliving
Past simpleoverlived
Past participleoverlived

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyoverlive
he, she, itoverlives

Past simpleLesson

all personsoverlived

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave overlived
he, she, ithas overlived

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill overlive

Word family

1 related words
Derivedoverliver

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
overlapB2overlayC2overloadoverlookB2
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