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ˌoverˈteem, v.
[over- 26, 21.]
a. intr. To teem or breed excessively, be excessively productive; also fig.
b. trans. To wear out or exhaust by excessive breeding or production. Hence ˌoverˈteemed, ˌoverˈteeming ppl. adjs.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 531 For a Robe About her lanke and all ore-teamed Loines, A blanket. 1818Keats Endym. i. 575 Such a dream, That never tongue, although it overteem With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring, Could figure out. 1818Shelley Let. T.L.P. 22 Dec., Ess. etc. 1852 II. 142 The overteeming vegetation. 1828Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 255 His mind is a soil which is never overteemed. 1877Baring-Gould Myst. Suffering 32 If productiveness were conceivable without death to check the increase, the world would overteem. |