overdrown
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editoverdrown (third-person singular simple present overdrowns, present participle overdrowning, simple past and past participle overdrowned)
- (transitive, obsolete) To drench or wet to excess.
- 1616, William Browne, “The First Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Iohn Haviland, published 1625, →OCLC, page 9:
- VVhen caſting round her ouer-drovvned eyes, […]
Further reading
edit- “overdrown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.