overteem en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + teem.
Meanings
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(intransitive) To be filled or swarming with something.
Yet it was but a dream: yet such a dream / That never tongue, although it overteem / With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring […]
1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion:
- To exhaust or deplete by producing excessively.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overteemed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overteemed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overteems | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| overteeming | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |