overliveとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈlɪv/

動詞

overlive (三人称単数 現在形 overlives, 現在分詞 overliving, 過去形および過去分詞形 overlived)

1. (transitive) To survive; to live past.
2. (transitive) To outlive; live longer than.
   • 1624, John Donne, Meditation VII:

     [M]y disease cannot survive me, I may overlive it.

   • 1891, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 31, in Unknown to History: A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland:

     "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!"

3. (intransitive) To live too long.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Why do I overlive?
     Why am I mocked with death, and lengthened out
     to deathless pain?

   • 1909, “"How Can He Do It?"”, in Notions and Fancy Goods, volume 43, page 30:

     The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.

4. (intransitive) To live too fast, too luxuriously, or too actively.

派生語

• overliver

参照

アナグラム

• overveil