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overyear

overyear adjective: kept over from the previous year.

Adjective

overyear (not comparable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Kept over from the previous year.

Verb

overyear (third-person singular simple present overyears, present participle overyearing, simple past and past participle overyeared)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To keep (seed, etc.) from the previous year.

Forms of overyear

third-person singular presentoveryears
present participleoveryearing
past participleoveryeared
pastoveryeared

Origin of overyear

From over- + year.

Questions about overyear

What does overyear mean?
Overyear means kept over from the previous year.
What part of speech is overyear?
Overyear can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near overyear in the dictionary

  1. overwrote
  2. overwroth
  3. overwrought
  4. overwroughtness
  5. Overy
  6. overyear
  7. overyeared
  8. overyearing
  9. overyears
  10. overyield
  11. overyielded

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