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Overlove vs Overlive - What's the difference?

overlove | overlive |

As verbs the difference between overlove and overlive

is that overlove is to love too much while overlive is to survive.

overlove

English

Verb

(overlov)
  • To love too much.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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)