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overliving

overliving is the present participle and gerund of overlive.

Meaning of overlive

Verb

overlive (third-person singular simple present overlives, present participle overliving, simple past and past participle overlived)

  1. (transitive) To survive; to live past.
  2. (transitive) To outlive; live longer than.
    • [M]y disease cannot survive me, I may overlive it.1624, John Donne, Meditation VII
  3. (intransitive) To live too long.
    • Why do I overlive?
      Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out
      to deathless pain?1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  4. (intransitive) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

Questions about overliving

What is overliving the present participle and gerund of?
Overliving is the present participle and gerund of overlive.

Words near overliving in the dictionary

  1. overliveliness
  2. overlively
  3. overliver
  4. overlivers
  5. overlives
  6. overliving
  7. overload
  8. overloadability
  9. overloadable
  10. overloaded
  11. overloadedness

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