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OVERWINTER
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overwinter ... he / she / it overwinters
Past simple: overwintered
Past participle: overwintered
-ing form: overwintering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spend the winter
Example:
Shackleton's men overwintered on Elephant Island
Synonyms:
overwinter; winter
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "overwinter" is one way to...):
pass; spend (use up a period of time in a specific way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
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