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overyearing

overyearing is the present participle and gerund of overyear.

Meaning of overyear

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.

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Questions about overyearing

What is overyearing the present participle and gerund of?
Overyearing is the present participle and gerund of overyear.

Words near overyearing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overyearing (page history and authors); overyear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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