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overbrush

overbrush verb: to brush excessively.

Verb

overbrush (third-person singular simple present overbrushes, present participle overbrushing, simple past and past participle overbrushed)

  1. to brush excessively

Forms of overbrush

third-person singular presentoverbrushes
present participleoverbrushing
past participleoverbrushed
pastoverbrushed

Origin of overbrush

From over- + brush.

Questions about overbrush

What does overbrush mean?
Overbrush means to brush excessively.
What part of speech is overbrush?
Overbrush is a verb.
What is the past tense of overbrush?
The past tense of overbrush is overbrushed.

Words near overbrush in the dictionary

  1. overbrows
  2. overbrowse
  3. overbrowsed
  4. overbrowses
  5. overbrowsing
  6. overbrush
  7. overbrushed
  8. overbrushes
  9. overbrushing
  10. overbrutal
  11. overbubble

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