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Definition of Overcrow
1. v. t. To crow, exult, or boast, over; to overpower.
Definition of Overcrow
1. Verb. (obsolete) to take over ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overcrow
1. to triumph over [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overcrow
Literary usage of Overcrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Licentiously used, for the sake of rhyme, instead of overcrow, or crow over, in
triumph. ... To overcrow, v. The same word, in its regular form. Spew. t'. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"overcrow. To triumph over; to sustain. " Laboured with tooth and naile to overcrow,"
Holinshed, Chron. Ireland, p. 82. ..."
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