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.

Anagrams

• overarmed