overweens

Verb

overween (third-person singular simple present overweens, present participle overweening, simple past and past participle overweened)

1. (ergative) To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).
   • and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,1644, Milton, Sonnet IX
2. To make or render arrogant and overweening.
   • There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.1987 October, Field & Stream, volume 92, number 6, page 24
3. (proscribed) To overwhelm.
   • The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles; […]2003, Michael Gelven, What happens to us when we think: transformation and reality, page 44