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overbulk en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + bulk.

Meanings

  1. To be more bulky than; to tower over.
    • Achilles must or now be cropped Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil To overbulk us all. c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  2. To make bulky
    • Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation. 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry:

Forms

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overbulked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overbulked Tense=Past lexicographic
overbulks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overbulking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic