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overleaven

overleaven verb: to leaven too much.

Verb

overleaven (third-person singular simple present overleavens, present participle overleavening, simple past and past participle overleavened)

  1. To leaven too much.
  2. (broadly, obsolete) To change excessively; to spoil.

Forms of overleaven

third-person singular presentoverleavens
present participleoverleavening
past participleoverleavened
pastoverleavened

Origin of overleaven

From over- + leaven.

Questions about overleaven

What does overleaven mean?
Overleaven means to leaven too much.
What part of speech is overleaven?
Overleaven is a verb.
What is the past tense of overleaven?
The past tense of overleaven is overleavened.

Words near overleaven in the dictionary

  1. overlearning
  2. overlearns
  3. overlearnt
  4. overleather
  5. overleave
  6. overleaven
  7. overleavened
  8. overleavening
  9. overleavens
  10. overled
  11. overlegalization

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