overteem

verb — 2 senses

overteem

verb

Etymology From over- + teem.

1

To 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.

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