overdrown

verb

overdrown

verb

Etymology From over- + drown.

1

Obsolete To drench or wet to excess.

  • VVhen caſting round her ouer-drovvned eyes, […]1616, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Thomas Snodham for George Norton, […], →OCLC, page 9:

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