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单词 overteeming
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overteemingadj.

Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈtiːmɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtimɪŋ/
Forms: see over- prefix and teeming adj.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, teeming adj.1
Etymology: < over- prefix + teeming adj.1 Compare overteemed adj., later overteem v.
Excessively fertile or productive; too active or vigorous.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > excessive
overteeming1603
superfetate1845
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree
overmeteeOE
unmeeteOE
unimeteOE
unmethelyOE
over-mickleOE
hoflesc1175
overmucha1300
unskilwisea1340
unskilfulc1370
luxuriousc1374
overseemingc1384
superfluec1384
unreasonablea1387
outrageousc1390
over-greatc1390
overlargec1390
overgrowna1398
unmeasurablea1398
unmoderatea1398
unordinatea1398
immoderate1398
rankc1400
overabundantc1410
excessivea1420
superabundant?a1425
unmeasureda1425
superfluousc1475
nimious?c1500
surfeitc1500
overliberala1535
torc1540
exceeding1548
distemperate1557
over-ranka1568
overswelling1582
accessive1583
overaboundinga1600
overteeming1603
excessful1633
overproportionated1647
superproportioned1652
over-proportioned1662
overproportionate1672
unduea1684
unequal1704
unmerciful1707
hypermetric1854
hypertrophied1879
over the top1980
1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. 511 And o're her weake and all ore-teeming [1604 ore-teamed] loynes, a blancket.
1674 C. Cotton On Excellent Poems Flatman in T. Flatman Poems & Songs sig. A 7 The Wits must pardon me if I profess, That 'till this time the over-teeming press Ne're set out Poesy in so true a dress.
1818 P. B. Shelley Let. Dec. (1964) II. 62 The overteeming vegetation.
1872 S. Ferguson Congal iv. 86 Lo, yonder see the mountains blue, to whose recesses borne Your tide of overteeming life flowed out from full Cremorne.
1879 Appleton's Jrnl. June 565/1 They are of a character, let us say, which in the constitution of the human mind are sure to mark all affluent and over-teeming minds.
1922 C. E. Russell Outlook for Philippines iii. 48 The Americans..have knocked some of this right and left with base-ball and the overteeming flood of base-ball slang.
1988 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 7 Feb. 6 d [Thomas Chatterton] forged, out of some old manuscripts found in a neighborhood church and his own overteeming imagination, a series of medieval verses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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