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overcatch

overcatch verb: to overtake.

Verb

overcatch (third-person singular simple present overcatches, present participle overcatching, simple past and past participle overcaught)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To overtake.
    • She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught ,
      That in the very dore him overcaught1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To catch too many; to overfish.

Forms of overcatch

third-person singular presentovercatches
present participleovercatching
past participleovercaught
pastovercaught

Origin of overcatch

From over- + catch.

Questions about overcatch

What does overcatch mean?
Overcatch means to overtake.
What part of speech is overcatch?
Overcatch is a verb.
What is the past tense of overcatch?
The past tense of overcatch is overcaught.

Words near overcatch in the dictionary

  1. overcastings
  2. overcastness
  3. overcasts
  4. overcasual
  5. overcasually
  6. overcatch
  7. overcatches
  8. overcatching
  9. overcategories
  10. overcategorisation
  11. overcategorise

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