overteem

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verb

To be filled or swarming with something.

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Meanings

verboverteem (third-person singular simple present overteems, present participle overteeming, simple past and past participle overteemed)

present singular third person overteems · participle present overteeming · participle past overteemed · past overteemed

  1. intransitiveTo be filled or swarming with something.

    Yet it was but a dream: yet such a dream / That never tongue, although it overteem / With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring […]

    1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion
  2. To exhaust or deplete by producing excessively.

Origin

From over- + teem.

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APA

overteem. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overteem

MLA

“overteem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overteem. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overteem,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overteem.

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