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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overcrow .
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Examples
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Only, the egotism that overcrows you is offensive, that exalts trifles and takes pleasure in them, that suggests superiority in matters of equipage and furniture; and the egotism is offensive, because it runs counter to and jostles your self-complacency.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Alexander Smith 1848
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_overcrows_ the town, browbeats their prejudices, and bullies them out of their senses, and is not afraid of being contradicted by any one
The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits William Hazlitt 1804
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