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overdrown

overdrown verb: to drench or wet to excess.

Verb

overdrown (third-person singular simple present overdrowns, present participle overdrowning, simple past and past participle overdrowned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To drench or wet to excess.
    • VVhen caſting round her ouer-drovvned eyes, […]1616, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Thomas Snodham for George Norton, […], →OCLC, page 9

Forms of overdrown

third-person singular presentoverdrowns
present participleoverdrowning
past participleoverdrowned
pastoverdrowned

Origin of overdrown

From over- + drown.

Questions about overdrown

What does overdrown mean?
Overdrown means to drench or wet to excess.
What part of speech is overdrown?
Overdrown is a verb.
What is the past tense of overdrown?
The past tense of overdrown is overdrowned.

Words near overdrown in the dictionary

  1. overdrop
  2. overdropped
  3. overdropping
  4. overdrops
  5. overdrove
  6. overdrown
  7. overdrowned
  8. overdrowning
  9. overdrowns
  10. overdrug
  11. overdrugged

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