User blog comment:To-coming otheredoneness/Alternatives (insteaders) to the word overlive for the word 'survive'/@comment-1861513-20100830182347

Personally, I find that "overlive" is rare or specialized enough in the sense of "live too much" so as not to be confused with "overlive" in the sense of "survive, outlive." Both those definitions are attested in Modern English, and, indeed, in my unabridged dictionary the meaning "to endure" is given before that of "to live luxuriously." Furthermore, "overlive" meant "to survive" even in Old English (oferlibban; oddly enough, though, oferlifa, which superficially appears to be a related form, meant "excess"), and structural equivalents of "overlive" exist in many other modern European languages (especially the Romance, Germanic and Slavic branches), all with the meaning of "to survive" (Cf. Czech přežít, Dutch overleven, French survivre, German überleben, Italian sopravvivere, Norwegian overleve, Portuguese sobreviver, Spanish sobrevivir, Swedish överleva and others). However, if alternatives are truly desired, than one need look no further than the richness of the Anglo-Saxon wordhoard. The Old English verbs álibban, áspédan, belǽfan, gedígan and nesan all meant to survive, and could be revived as alive (rimes with the verb "live"), aspeed, beleave, ydigh and nese, respectively.