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overcatches

overcatches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overcatch.

Meaning of overcatch

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.

Questions about overcatches

What is overcatches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overcatches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overcatch.

Words near overcatches in the dictionary

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

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