overleaven
English
Etymology
over- + leaven
Verb
overleaven (third-person singular simple present overleavens, present participle overleavening, simple past and past participle overleavened)
- (obsolete) To leaven too much.
- (obsolete, by extension) To change excessively; to spoil.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overleaven in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)