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)

  1. (rare) To dream (about) excessively.
    • 1818, H. H. Milman, Samor, section VII:
      [] as though they had o'erdream'd / The churlish winter.
    • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 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.

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