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Overlive vs Everlive - What's the difference?

overlive | everlive |

In lang=en terms the difference between overlive and everlive

is that overlive is to live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively while everlive is to live forever; live constantly or continually; remain alive or active.

As verbs the difference between overlive and everlive

is that overlive is to survive while everlive is to live forever; live constantly or continually; remain alive or active.

overlive

English

Verb

(overliv)
  • To survive.
  • To outlive; live longer than.
  • * 1624 , , "Meditation VII":
    • [M]y disease cannot survive me, I may overlive it.
  • * 1891 , , Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland , ch. 31:
    • "Her Majesty's life will never be safe for a moment while she lives; and what would become of us all did she overlive the Queen!"
  • To live too long.
  • * 1667 , , Paradise Lost :
    • Why do I overlive ?
    Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out
    to deathless pain?
  • To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

    • References

    (Webster 1913)

    everlive

    English

    Verb

  • To live forever; live constantly or continually; remain alive or active.
  • *1811 , Samuel McSkimin, The history and antiquities of the county of the town of Carrickfergus :
    • Whose fame shall everlive .
  • *1949 , International Organization against Trachoma, Revue internationale du trachome et des maladies oculaires des pays tropicaux et sub-tropicaux, Volume 26 :
    • He noted that human trachoma's virus everlives in the monkey after six reinjections [...]
  • *1993 , Dante Alighieri, James Torrens, Presenting Paradise :
    • The one and two and three that everlives and reigns forever in three, two, and one, by nothing compassed, all-ecompassing, three times was heralded by every spirit so melodiously that anyone would find his merits fully rewarded there.