overteemedadj.

Brit.

/ˌəʊvəˈtiːmd/, U.S.

/ˌoʊvərˈtimd/

Forms: see over- prefix, teem v.¹, and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, teem v.¹, -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < over- prefix + teem v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. Compare overteeming adj. and later overteem v.

Now rare.

Excessively productive or fertile; put under strain by excessive breeding or production.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > excessive > exhausted by excessive breeding

overteemed1604

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. sig. E4 For a robe, About her lanck and all ore-teamed [1603 ore-teeming] loynes, A blancket.

1650 E. Williams Virginia's Discov. Silke-worms 33 Virginia will pardon me, if..I make her pure and unexhausted browes descend to weare a Gyrlond of fertility equall to that laborious and over-teeming Mother, the French Kingdome.

1828 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 255 His mind is a soil which is never overteemed.

1888 J. Todhunter Autumn Aay in Banshee & Other Poems 142 Where harvesters reaped and sang, The gaunt o'erteemèd Earth Sees spectres walking amid the sheaves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	overteemed
释义	overteemedadj. Brit. /ˌəʊvəˈtiːmd/, U.S. /ˌoʊvərˈtimd/ Forms: see over- prefix, teem v.¹, and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: over- prefix, teem v.¹, -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < over- prefix + teem v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. Compare overteeming adj. and later overteem v. Now rare. Excessively productive or fertile; put under strain by excessive breeding or production. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [adjective] > excessive > exhausted by excessive breeding overteemed1604 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. ii. sig. E4 For a robe, About her lanck and all ore-teamed [1603 ore-teeming] loynes, A blancket. View more context for this quotation 1650 E. Williams Virginia's Discov. Silke-worms 33 Virginia will pardon me, if..I make her pure and unexhausted browes descend to weare a Gyrlond of fertility equall to that laborious and over-teeming Mother, the French Kingdome. 1828 T. B. Macaulay Misc. Writings (1860) I. 255 His mind is a soil which is never overteemed. 1888 J. Todhunter Autumn Aay in Banshee & Other Poems 142 Where harvesters reaped and sang, The gaunt o'erteemèd Earth Sees spectres walking amid the sheaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1604
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