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overbrowing

overbrowing is the present participle and gerund of overbrow.

Meaning of overbrow

Verb

overbrow (third-person singular simple present overbrows, present participle overbrowing, simple past and past participle overbrowed)

  1. (poetic, transitive) 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 overbrowing the present participle and gerund of?
Overbrowing is the present participle and gerund of overbrow.

Words near overbrowing in the dictionary

  1. overbrooding
  2. overbroods
  3. Overbrook
  4. overbrow
  5. overbrowed
  6. overbrowing
  7. overbrown
  8. overbrowned
  9. overbrowning
  10. overbrowns
  11. overbrows

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