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overcapacitate

overcapacitate verb: to exhaust the capacity of.

Verb

overcapacitate (third-person singular simple present overcapacitates, present participle overcapacitating, simple past and past participle overcapacitated)

  1. (transitive) To exhaust the capacity of.
    • It is a very flat town, and this storm overcapacitated the storm drainage in the city and, believe you me, it put Salina under water.1951, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 1013
    • More importantly, operational constraints on airport density (maximum service radius restrictions and the limit of two stops on longhaul trips) tend to overcapacitate the air network even in the deterministic cases.2001, Karen R. Smilowitz, Design and Operation of Multimode, Multiservice Logistics Systems, page 58

Forms of overcapacitate

third-person singular presentovercapacitates
present participleovercapacitating
past participleovercapacitated
pastovercapacitated

Questions about overcapacitate

What does overcapacitate mean?
Overcapacitate means to exhaust the capacity of.
What part of speech is overcapacitate?
Overcapacitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcapacitate?
The past tense of overcapacitate is overcapacitated.

Words near overcapacitate in the dictionary

  1. overcanopies
  2. overcanopy
  3. overcanopying
  4. overcanvassed
  5. overcapable
  6. overcapacitate
  7. overcapacitated
  8. overcapacitates
  9. overcapacitating
  10. overcapacities
  11. overcapacity

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