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overcancelled

overcancelled 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 overcancelled

What is overcancelled the simple past and past participle of?
Overcancelled is the simple past and past participle of overcancel.

Words near overcancelled in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcancelled (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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