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overleve — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • live verb To be alive; to have life.
  • outlive verb To live longer than someone or something else; to survive past it.
  • survive verb To stay alive, especially after facing danger, illness, or hardship.

Senses

overleve is used for these senses in English:

  • live (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
  • outlive (transitive) To live longer than; continue to live after the death of; overlive; survive.

live — full definition

  1. verb To be alive; to have life.
  2. verb To reside somewhere; to make one's home in a place.
  3. verb To spend one's life in a particular way, or to experience life fully.
  4. adj Alive, or currently active/in use (as opposed to recorded, tested, or switched off).
  5. adj Broadcast or performed in real time, in front of an audience, rather than pre-recorded.

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