Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To leaven too much; cause to rise and swell too much: also used figuratively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To leaven too much; hence, to change excessively; to spoil.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
leaven too much. - verb obsolete, by extension To
change excessively; tospoil .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
over- + leaven
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