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overcanceling

overcanceling is the present participle and gerund 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 overcanceling

What is overcanceling the present participle and gerund of?
Overcanceling is the present participle and gerund of overcancel.

Words near overcanceling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcanceling (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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