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overnumber en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + number.

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:archaic or non-native speakers' English, transitive) To outnumber.
    • In the most acute cases they may greatly overnumber the white corpuscles and epithelial cells. 1900, United States, Annual Reports of the War Department, War Department, page 774:

Forms

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overnumbering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overnumbered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overnumbered Tense=Past lexicographic
overnumbers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic