overbounds

Verb

overbound (third-person singular simple present overbounds, present participle overbounding, simple past and past participle overbounded)

1. (archaic, transitive) To leap over.
2. To provide an upper bound to.
3. To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.
   • The Urbanized Area is often considered the best measure of urban size because it neither "underbounds" the city (by taking just the political city) or "overbounds" it (including peripheral, largely rural areas).1975, James W. Clay, Douglas Milton Orr, Alfred Wright Stuart, North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State, page 58

   Antonyms:

   underbound

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