overdrown

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ drown.

Verb

overdrown (third-person singular simple present overdrowns, present participle overdrowning, simple past and past participle overdrowned)

1. (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

• “overdrown”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.