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overteem

overteem verb: to be filled or swarming with something.

Verb

overteem (third-person singular simple present overteems, present participle overteeming, simple past and past participle overteemed)

  1. (intransitive) To be filled or swarming with something.
    • Yet it was but a dream: yet such a dream / That never tongue, although it overteem / With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring […]1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion
  2. To exhaust or deplete by producing excessively.

Forms of overteem

third-person singular presentoverteems
present participleoverteeming
past participleoverteemed
pastoverteemed

Origin of overteem

From over- + teem.

Questions about overteem

What does overteem mean?
Overteem means to be filled or swarming with something.
What part of speech is overteem?
Overteem is a verb.
What is the past tense of overteem?
The past tense of overteem is overteemed.

Words near overteem in the dictionary

  1. overteaches
  2. overteaching
  3. overtechnical
  4. overtechnicality
  5. overtedious
  6. overteem
  7. overteemed
  8. overteeming
  9. overteems
  10. overtell
  11. overtelling

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