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MARCH 19, 2017
overwinterverb [oh-ver-WIN-ter]
1. to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
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delicate orange and black butterflies fly more than two thousand miles
from the United States and Canada to overwinter in the mountains of
central Mexico.
-- Mary Alice Monroe, The Butterfly's Daughter, 2011 ORIGINOld English
had the verb oferwintran to get through the winter, but it became
obsolete at the end of the Old English period (about 1150). Overwinter
was formed anew at the end of the 19th century on the model of
Scandinavian, e.g., Danish and Norwegian overvintre, Swedish
övervintra; Dutch overwinteren; or Germanüberwintern.
