Usually means: Survive winter, especially in hibernation.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. overwinter: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overwinter: Merriam-Webster
  3. overwinter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overwinter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overwinter: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overwinter: Vocabulary.com
  7. overwinter: Wordnik
  8. overwinter: Wiktionary
  9. overwinter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. overwinter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. overwinter: Dictionary.com
  12. Overwinter (novel), Overwinter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. overwinter: FreeDictionary.org
  14. overwinter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. overwinter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. overwinter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overwinter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overwinter: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Biological Control (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To keep or preserve for the winter.
verb:  (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
adjective:  Occurring over the winter season.
adverb:  During the winter.

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