overcrow

English

Etymology

Verb

overcrow (third-person singular simple present overcrows, present participle overcrowing, simple past and past participle overcrowed)

(obsolete, transitive) To take over.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
  The potent poison quite overcrows my spirit
(obsolete, transitive) To crow over, as in triumph.

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