Definition of "overlive" [o•ver•live]

• To survive. (verb)
• To outlive; live longer than. (verb)
• To live too long. (verb)
• To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively. (verb)

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• "No! women need to think more, not less; to increase, not diminish brain-work; to overlive the drudgery of it, whether it involve teaching, writing, study, the work of a profession, or house-work, by breathing into it the living spirit of love, which sanctifies and ennobles whatever the hands or the brain find to do."
• "All the wretchedness of her life seems to have culminated, the little doubts she has thrust out or tried to overlive."
• "She is rather pleased than otherwise, she even breathes little bits of encouragement and commendation to Violet, as if seconding her efforts; and Violet falls into the mistake that many have made before her, of comforting a young man and assisting him to overlive his fancy for another woman, as well as secretly blaming the other."