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overteems

overteems is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 overteems

What is overteems the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overteems is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overteem.

Words near overteems in the dictionary

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

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