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overcaught

overcaught is the simple past and past participle 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 overcaught

What is overcaught the simple past and past participle of?
Overcaught is the simple past and past participle of overcatch.

Words near overcaught in the dictionary

  1. overcategorize
  2. overcategorized
  3. overcategorizes
  4. overcategorizing
  5. overcategory
  6. overcaught
  7. overcaution
  8. overcautioned
  9. overcautioning
  10. overcautions
  11. overcautious

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