overween

overweenverb

• 1

  To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).

  • and they that overween, / And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen,
  • The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself.
• 2

  To make or render arrogant and overweening.

  • There is, I suppose, the cheap drama of man sticking his nose into an area where it does little good except to expand his already overweened vanity.
  • Sometimes we manage to come up with original ways of viewing a world hardened, stratified, overweened by its own power, a world which believes itself as omnipotent as its technological achievements might seem to imply.
• 3

  To overwhelm.

  • The invasion of a vast enemy host upon the unprepared is unstoppable; the huge phalanx of tanks overweens our small army of trucks and rifles; […]