Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overween
Participle: overweened
Gerund: overweening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overween |
| you | overween |
| he;she;it | overweens |
| we | overween |
| you | overween |
| they | overween |
Perfect
| I | have overweened |
| you | have overweened |
| he;she;it | has overweened |
| we | have overweened |
| you | have overweened |
| they | have overweened |
Past
| I | overweened |
| you | overweened |
| he;she;it | overweened |
| we | overweened |
| you | overweened |
| they | overweened |
Pluperfect
| I | had overweened |
| you | had overweened |
| he;she;it | had overweened |
| we | had overweened |
| you | had overweened |
| they | had overweened |
Future
| I | will overween |
| you | will overween |
| he;she;it | will overween |
| we | will overween |
| you | will overween |
| they | will overween |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overweened |
| you | will have overweened |
| he;she;it | will have overweened |
| we | will have overweened |
| you | will have overweened |
| they | will have overweened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overween |
| you | overween |
| he;she;it | overween |
| we | overween |
| you | overween |
| they | overween |
Perfect
| I | have overweened |
| you | have overweened |
| he;she;it | have overweened |
| we | have overweened |
| you | have overweened |
| they | have overweened |
Imperfect
| I | overweened |
| you | overweened |
| he;she;it | overweened |
| we | overweened |
| you | overweened |
| they | overweened |
Pluperfect
| I | had overweened |
| you | had overweened |
| he;she;it | had overweened |
| we | had overweened |
| you | had overweened |
| they | had overweened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overween |
| you | would overween |
| he;she;it | would overween |
| we | would overween |
| you | would overween |
| they | would overween |
Perfect
| I | would have overweened |
| you | would have overweened |
| he;she;it | would have overweened |
| we | would have overweened |
| you | would have overweened |
| they | would have overweened |
Imperative
| you | overween |
| we | Let's overween |
| you | overween |
Verbs conjugated like 'overween'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overween'
overfeed,
overfeel,
overkeep,
overlean,
overpeel,
overpeer,
oversee,
overseed,
oversweep,
overteem,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English overwēnen (“to be presumptuous, be over-confident; presume”), from Old English oferwennan and oferwenian (“to be proud, become insolent, or presumptuous”), equivalent to over- + ween.
Sample Sentences
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and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen, [1644, Milton, Sonnet IX:]
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The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself. [2005, A. J. Liebling, Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer, page 327:]
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There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity. [1987 October, Field & Stream, volume 92, number 6, page 24:]
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Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply. [2009, Ariel Dorfman, The Empire's Old Clothes: What the Lone Ranger, Babar, and Other Innocent Heroes Do to Our Minds, page 6:]
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The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles; […] [2003, Michael Gelven, What happens to us when we think: transformation and reality, page 44:]