overdream

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UK/ˌəʊvəˈdɹiːm/

verb

To dream (about) excessively.

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Meanings

verboverdream (third-person singular simple present overdreams, present participle overdreaming, simple past and past participle overdreamed)

present singular third person overdreams · participle present overdreaming · participle past overdreamed · past overdreamed

  1. rareTo dream (about) excessively.

    […] as though they had o'erdream'd / The churlish winter.

    1818, H. H. Milman, Samor, section VII
    1 more example

    I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed – that voice was a deathless song.

    1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 93

Origin

From over- + dream.

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Chicago

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