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Overgive vs Overlive - What's the difference?

overgive | overlive |

In lang=en terms the difference between overgive and overlive

is that overgive is to give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish while overlive is to live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

As verbs the difference between overgive and overlive

is that overgive is to give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish while overlive is to survive.

overgive

English

Verb

  • To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
  • *:For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government.
  • (obsolete) To give up, terminate.

    • 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)