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overgives

overgives is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overgives

What is overgives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overgives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overgive.

Words near overgives in the dictionary

  1. overgirding
  2. overgirds
  3. overgirt
  4. overgive
  5. overgiven
  6. overgives
  7. overgiving
  8. overglad
  9. overglamorization
  10. overglamorize
  11. overglamorized

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