Overlive vs Outlive - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between overlive and outlive

is that overlive is to outlive; live longer than while outlive is to surpass in duration; outlast.

is that overlive is to live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively while outlive is to live longer; continue to live.

(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.

(Webster 1913)

(outliv)

To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

* 1592–1609 , William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXVIII .:

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth / Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

* 2003 , Bernard O'Donoghue, Outliving, page 1:

If anything / it makes it worse, your early death, that / having now at last outlived you, I too / have broken ranks.

To live through or past (a given time).

* 1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :

This must have been the way mamma had first looked at Sir Claude; it brought back the lustre of the time they had outlived .

To surpass in duration; outlast.

To live longer; continue to live.

* (live longer than ): survive

* (live longer than ): predecease

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