overteem

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ teem.

Verb

overteem (third-person singular simple present overteems, present participle overteeming, simple past and past participle overteemed)

1. (intransitive) To be filled or swarming with something.
   • 1818, John Keats, “Book I”, in Endymion:

     Yet it was but a dream: yet such a dream / That never tongue, although it overteem / With mellow utterance, like a cavern spring […]

2. To exhaust or deplete by producing excessively.