overdream
English
Etymology
From over- + dream.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌəʊvəˈdɹiːm/
Verb
overdream (third-person singular simple present overdreams, present participle overdreaming, simple past and past participle overdreamed)
- (rare) To dream (about) excessively.
- 1818, H. H. Milman, Samor, VII:
- […] as though they had o'erdream'd / The churlish winter.
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, p. 93:
- I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn't be over-dreamed – that voice was a deathless song.
- 1818, H. H. Milman, Samor, VII:
Anagrams
- overarmed