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Definition: OVERWEEN |
OVERWEENTransitive verb1. To think too highly or arrogantly; to regard one's own thinking or conclusions too highly; hence, to egotistic, arrogant, or rash, in opinion; to think conceitedly; to presume. |
Date "OVERWEEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
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Words beginning with "OVERWEEN": overweened, overweening, overweeningly, overweens. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-n-o-r-v-w" | |
-1 letter: overnew, rewoven. | |
-2 letters: erenow, evener, rewove, veneer, weever. | |
-3 letters: nerve, never, newer, owner, reeve, renew, rewon, roven, rowen, vower, woven. | |
-4 letters: enow, erne, even, ever, ewer, neve, oven, over, rove, veer, vrow, ween, weer, were, wore, worn, wove, wren. | |
-5 letters: eon, ere, ern, eve, ewe, nee, new, nor, now, one, ore, owe, own, ree, rev. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-n-o-r-v-w" | |
+1 letter: overweens. | |
+2 letters: everywomen, overweened, whensoever. | |
+3 letters: oversweeten, overweening. | |
+4 letters: oversweetens, overwintered, servicewomen, whencesoever. | |
+5 letters: oversweetened, oversweetness, overweeningly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 56 45 52 57 45 45 4E |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--- ...- . .-. .--. . . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001111 01010110 01000101 01010010 01010111 01000101 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O V E R W E E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0056 0045 0052 0057 0045 0045 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4956395257393948 |
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