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OVERJOY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does overjoy mean?
• OVERJOY (verb)
The verb OVERJOY has 1 sense:
1. cause to feel extremely joyful or happy
Familiarity information: OVERJOY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to feel extremely joyful or happy
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
the economic growth overjoyed the German industry
Hypernyms (to "overjoy" is one way to...):
gladden; joy (make glad or happy)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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