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, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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.]

Anagrams

• give over, vegivore