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overgave

overgave is the simple past of overgive.

Meaning of overgive

Verb

overgive (third-person singular simple present overgives, present participle overgiving, simple past overgave, past participle overgiven)

  1. (ambitransitive) To give too lavishly.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.
    • For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To give up, terminate.

Questions about overgave

What is overgave the simple past of?
Overgave is the simple past of overgive.

Words near overgave in the dictionary

  1. overganging
  2. overgangs
  3. overgarment
  4. overgarments
  5. overgarrisoned
  6. overgave
  7. overgaze
  8. overgazed
  9. overgazes
  10. overgazing
  11. overgear

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