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overhent

overhent verb: to catch hold of; to overtake.

Verb

overhent (third-person singular simple present overhents, present participle overhenting, simple past and past participle overhent)

  1. (obsolete) To catch hold of; to overtake.
    • With that he would haue fled into the wood; / But Timias him lightly ouerhent, / Right as he entring was into the flood […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of overhent

third-person singular presentoverhents
present participleoverhenting
past participleoverhent
pastoverhent

Origin of overhent

From over- + hent.

Questions about overhent

What does overhent mean?
Overhent means to catch hold of; to overtake.
What part of speech is overhent?
Overhent is a verb.
What is the past tense of overhent?
The past tense of overhent is overhent.

Words near overhent in the dictionary

  1. overhemisecting
  2. overhemisects
  3. overhend
  4. overhending
  5. overhends
  6. overhent
  7. overhenting
  8. overhents
  9. overhie
  10. overhied
  11. overhigh

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