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overchill

overchill verb: to chill too much.

Verb

overchill (third-person singular simple present overchills, present participle overchilling, simple past and past participle overchilled)

  1. (transitive) To chill too much.
    • If you dont have a profound understanding of where the hot spots are, you just overchill everything, Mr. Brouillette said.2007 November 7, Matthew L. Wald, “Taming the Guzzlers That Power the World Wide Web”, in New York Times

Forms of overchill

third-person singular presentoverchills
present participleoverchilling
past participleoverchilled
pastoverchilled

Origin of overchill

From over- + chill.

Questions about overchill

What does overchill mean?
Overchill means to chill too much.
What part of speech is overchill?
Overchill is a verb.
What is the past tense of overchill?
The past tense of overchill is overchilled.

Words near overchill in the dictionary

  1. overchewing
  2. overchews
  3. overchief
  4. overchiefs
  5. overchildish
  6. overchill
  7. overchilled
  8. overchilling
  9. overchills
  10. overchlorinate
  11. overchlorinated

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