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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overpursue en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + pursue.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To pursue too far.
    • Sometimes running to the football, you're going to overpursue, and he may break it all the way out back out the back door. 2007 December 23, Thayer Evans, “Diminutive Tailback Is a Giant in Scoring”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
overpursuing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overpursues Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
overpursued Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overpursued Tense=Past lexicographic

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overpursuit