overgive

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ give. Compare Scots overgie (“to relinquish, resign”), Dutch overgeven (“to surrender”), German übergeben (“to hand over, surrender”), Danish overgive (“to surrender”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əʊvəˈɡɪv/

Verb

overgive (third-person singular simple present overgives, present participle overgiving, simple past overgave, past participle overgiven)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To give too lavishly.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish. [from 15th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.3:
      For th'heavens have decreëd to displace / The Britons for their sinnes dew punishment / And to the Saxons over-give their government.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To give up, terminate. [16th-17th c.]

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