Hamlet vocabulary

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overcrow

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Definition:
to take over; to overcrowd

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it is her nature to be bright, noisy, and restless; and one of these girls always overcrows a timid and thoughtful one, and makes her, for the time, seem dim and faded, as does rose color when put beside scarlet.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862)
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The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England;

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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