overlive

Verb

Verb Forms: overlived, overliving, overlives

To outlive someone; to survive beyond.
To survive; to live past.
To outlive; live longer than.
To live too long.
To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

Examples

Some short, strategic words overlive the longer, less flexible plays in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English overliven, from Old English oferlibban (“to survive”), equivalent to over- + live. Cognate with Dutch overleven (“to survive”), German überleben (“to survive, outlive”), Swedish överleva (“to survive, outlive, outlast”).

Scrabble Score: 14

overlive: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
overlive: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
overlive: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

overlive: valid Words With Friends Word