overbrowed
overbrowed is the simple past and past participle of overbrow.
Meaning of overbrow
Verb
overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)
- To hang over like a brow; to impend over.
- The prints of the Matlock cliffs on the Derwent, which every body has seen, will give the stranger some idea of the rocks which overbrow the partially wooded ravines, and glens down which the streams tributary to the Dove descend.1836, A. K. Killmister, The Oakleigh Shooting Code, page vii
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- What is overbrowed the simple past and past participle of?
- Overbrowed is the simple past and past participle of overbrow.
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