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overchlorinate

overchlorinate verb: to chlorinate excessively.

Verb

overchlorinate (third-person singular simple present overchlorinates, present participle overchlorinating, simple past and past participle overchlorinated)

  1. (transitive) To chlorinate excessively.

Forms of overchlorinate

third-person singular presentoverchlorinates
present participleoverchlorinating
past participleoverchlorinated
pastoverchlorinated

Origin of overchlorinate

From over- + chlorinate.

Questions about overchlorinate

What does overchlorinate mean?
Overchlorinate means to chlorinate excessively.
What part of speech is overchlorinate?
Overchlorinate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overchlorinate?
The past tense of overchlorinate is overchlorinated.

Words near overchlorinate in the dictionary

  1. overchildish
  2. overchill
  3. overchilled
  4. overchilling
  5. overchills
  6. overchlorinate
  7. overchlorinated
  8. overchlorinates
  9. overchlorinating
  10. overchlorination
  11. overchoice

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