overbattle
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From over- + battle (“fertile, fruitful”). More at over-, battle.
Adjective[edit]
overbattle (comparative more overbattle, superlative most overbattle)
- (dialectal or obsolete) Too fertile; too rich.
- For in the Church of God sometimes it cometh to pass as in over-battle grounds, the fertile disposition whereof is good. ― Hooker.