What's the difference between overgive and overlive?

Overgive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give over; to surrender; to yield.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in Dundee’s Overgate shopping centre, where Murphy was heckled by yes supporters during his pro-union speaking tour last summer, the impact of Scottish Labour’s recent pronouncements on welfare, fracking or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership appears minimal.

Overlive


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To outlive.
  • (v. i.) To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In particular, the insistence by policymakers, fearing a public backlash against using taxpayers' money to make whole banks who have overlent to peripheral economies, that creditors should shoulder a "fair" share of the burden, has been the oil on which the flames of the crisis have fed and spread.
  • (2) Pre- and postsynaptic components contribute to their overll postsynaptic effec in actively transmitting synapses.
  • (3) Resection of the overling dome is the usual treatment of exteriorised biliary cysts.
  • (4) The overlability of WHO IRP's has not allowed yet to achieve an optimal standardization of the immunochemical methods for measurement of plasma proteins.

Words possibly related to "overgive"

Words possibly related to "overlive"