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oversummer

UK/ˌəʊ.vəˈsʌm.ə/US/ˌoʊ.vɚˈsʌm.ɚ/

oversummer verb: to spend the summer (in a particular place or form).

Verb

oversummer (third-person singular simple present oversummers, present participle oversummering, simple past and past participle oversummered)

  1. (intransitive) To spend the summer (in a particular place or form).
    • The snails (Bakerilymnaea cockerelli) oversummer in the adult or near-adult morphology using a form of estivation.1976, Subodh K. Jain, Vernal Pools: Their Ecology and Conservation
    • Both powdery mildew and cereal rusts oversummer on volunteer crops in the asexual stage, infect the autumn-sown crop and, eventually, overwinter on the volunteers to infect the crops in spring (Zadoks, 1961).1998, D.G. Jones, The Epidemiology of Plant Diseases, →ISBN, page 336

oversummer meaning in Bengali

oversummer in Bengali

গ্রীষ্মকাল অতিবাহিত করা

Examples of oversummer in a sentence

  • In the Pacific Golden-Plover, some individuals oversummer in the tropics as yearlings and 2-year olds^([sic]) (Johnson and Johnson 1983).2010, Mark A. Colwell, Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management, →ISBN, page 211:
  • Dragged down in early winter from the top of the garden where they oversummer, they are placed on the front window sills looking sad and forlorn.2013, Alice Taylor, The Gift of a Garden, →ISBN:

Forms of oversummer

third-person singular presentoversummers
present participleoversummering
past participleoversummered
pastoversummered

Origin of oversummer

From over- + summer.

Questions about oversummer

What does oversummer mean?
Oversummer means to spend the summer (in a particular place or form).
What is oversummer in Bengali?
Oversummer in Bengali is গ্রীষ্মকাল অতিবাহিত করা. See Oversummer meaning in Bengali.
How do you use oversummer in a sentence?
In the Pacific Golden-Plover, some individuals oversummer in the tropics as yearlings and 2-year olds^([sic]) (Johnson and Johnson 1983).
What part of speech is oversummer?
Oversummer is a verb.
How do you pronounce oversummer?
Oversummer is pronounced /ˌəʊ.vəˈsʌm.ə/ (UK).
What is the past tense of oversummer?
The past tense of oversummer is oversummered.

Words near oversummer in the dictionary

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  3. oversulfation
  4. oversum
  5. oversummed
  6. oversummer
  7. oversummered
  8. oversummering
  9. oversummers
  10. oversumming
  11. oversums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversummer (page history and authors); oversummer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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