Definition of Overteem

1. to produce in excess [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overteem

overtask
overtasked
overtasking
overtasks
overtaught
overtax
overtaxation
overtaxations
overtaxed
overtaxes
overtaxing
overteach
overteaches
overteaching
overtedious
overteem (current term)
overteems
overtempt
overtempted
overtempting
overtempts
overtest
overtested
overtesting
overtests
overtheorize
overtheorized
overtheorizes
overtheorizing
overthick

Literary usage of Overteem

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

1. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth by Curtis Hidden Page (1904)
"... That never tongue, although it overteem With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring, Could ligure out and to Conception bring All 1 beheld and felt. ..."

2. Poems by John Keats, Arlo Bates (1896)
"Yet it was but a dream : yet such a dream That never tongue, although it overteem 575 With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring, Could figure out and to ..."

3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1814)
"... that the islam) ef Malt« draws the necessaries of life for the supply of its own overteem- III-/ population from Sicily ; and, consequently, ..."

4. The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning by Lucius Hudson Holt (1915)
"Yet it was but a dream : yet such a dream That never tongue, although it overteem With mellow utterance, like a cavern strange, and dim, 57o Could figure ..."

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