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OVERWINTER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overwinter mean?
• OVERWINTER (verb)
The verb OVERWINTER has 1 sense:
1. spend the winter
Familiarity information: OVERWINTER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they overwinter ... he / she / it overwinters
Past simple: overwintered
Past participle: overwintered
-ing form: overwintering
... he / she / it overwinters Past simple: overwintered
Past participle: overwintered
-ing form: overwintering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spend the winter
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
overwinter; winter
Context example:
Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island
Hypernyms (to "overwinter" is one way to...):
pass; spend (use up a period of time in a specific way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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