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overcanceled

overcanceled is the simple past and past participle of overcancel.

Meaning of overcancel

Verb

overcancel (third-person singular simple present overcancels, present participle (US) overcanceling or (UK) overcancelling, simple past and past participle (US) overcanceled or (UK) overcancelled)

  1. To cancel too many or too forcefully.
    • Note that there can still be feedback, however, if the gain is so high as to "overcancel" the input signal with the higher level output.1970, 1970, Amateur Radio - Volume 26, page 58

Questions about overcanceled

What is overcanceled the simple past and past participle of?
Overcanceled is the simple past and past participle of overcancel.

Words near overcanceled in the dictionary

  1. overcallers
  2. overcalling
  3. overcalls
  4. overcame
  5. overcancel
  6. overcanceled
  7. overcanceling
  8. overcancellation
  9. overcancelled
  10. overcancelling
  11. overcancels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcanceled (page history and authors); overcancel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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