Definition of Overwarm

1. to warm too much [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overwarm

overviewing
overviews
overviolent
overvivid
overvoltage
overvoltages
overvote
overvoted
overvotes
overvoting
overwait
overwalk
overwalked
overwalking
overwalks
overwarm (current term)
overwarmed
overwarming
overwarms
overwary
overwash
overwashed
overwashes
overwashing
overwasted
overwatch
overwatched
overwatches
overwatching
overwater

Literary usage of Overwarm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"To this day I lose my balance- and send an overwarm letter —or more frequently telegram—two or three times a year. But that is better than doing it a ..."

2. The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams (1880)
"... Mr. Gallatin gently held the President back from every appearance of hostility to England and of overwarm demonstrations towards Bonaparte, ..."

3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1872)
"But the afternoon was intensely hot, and the team soon sobered down. Mrs. Page did not offer again to take the lines. She was overwarm and weary, perhaps; ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"... taste and feeling of die editor secured the work against any intrusions of that overwarm element which was too apt to mingle in his amatory effusions. ..."

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