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overteeming

overteeming is the present participle and gerund of overteem.

Meaning of overteem

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.

Questions about overteeming

What is overteeming the present participle and gerund of?
Overteeming is the present participle and gerund of overteem.

Words near overteeming in the dictionary

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

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