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overbulk

overbulk verb: to be more bulky than; to tower over.

Verb

overbulk (third-person singular simple present overbulks, present participle overbulking, simple past and past participle overbulked)

  1. To be more bulky than; to tower over.
    • Achilles must or now be cropped
      Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil
      To overbulk us all.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. To make bulky
    • Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry

Forms of overbulk

third-person singular presentoverbulks
present participleoverbulking
past participleoverbulked
pastoverbulked

Origin of overbulk

From over- + bulk.

Questions about overbulk

What does overbulk mean?
Overbulk means to be more bulky than; to tower over.
What part of speech is overbulk?
Overbulk is a verb.
What is the past tense of overbulk?
The past tense of overbulk is overbulked.

Words near overbulk in the dictionary

  1. overbuilder
  2. overbuilders
  3. overbuilding
  4. overbuilds
  5. overbuilt
  6. overbulk
  7. overbulked
  8. overbulking
  9. overbulks
  10. overbulky
  11. overbullish

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