overmake
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[edit]overmake (third-person singular simple present overmakes, present participle overmaking, simple past and past participle overmade)
- (transitive) To make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo.
- (transitive, archaic) To make over or anew; recreate; remake.
- 1921, Denton J. Snider, A Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- In a degree he has to overmake the reading-faculty in every strong-hearted student, who gets to understand him better by repeated perusal […]
Noun
[edit]overmake (plural overmakes)
- That which is overmade; make-over.
- An oversupply; surplus.
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