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overballast

overballast verb: to load with too much ballast.

Verb

overballast (third-person singular simple present overballasts, present participle overballasting, simple past and past participle overballasted)

  1. (transitive) To load with too much ballast.

Forms of overballast

third-person singular presentoverballasts
present participleoverballasting
past participleoverballasted
pastoverballasted

Origin of overballast

From over- + ballast.

Questions about overballast

What does overballast mean?
Overballast means to load with too much ballast.
What part of speech is overballast?
Overballast is a verb.
What is the past tense of overballast?
The past tense of overballast is overballasted.

Words near overballast in the dictionary

  1. overbalance
  2. overbalanced
  3. overbalances
  4. overbalancing
  5. overbalancings
  6. overballast
  7. overballasted
  8. overballasting
  9. overballasts
  10. overband
  11. overbanded

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