overween verb3 •To think too highly or arrogantly of (oneself).The clouds on Futurity Day bore out in a general way this prognostication. But he overweened himself. — 2005 •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. — 1987 •(nonstandard) 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; […] — 2003 formsoverweened · overweening · overweens