Word.ws English Dictionary

overclaiming

overclaiming is the present participle and gerund of overclaim.

Meaning of overclaim

Verb

overclaim (third-person singular simple present overclaims, present participle overclaiming, simple past and past participle overclaimed)

  1. (transitive) To claim too much.
    • Smith says: "Performance has not been perfect, and I've been around long enough to not take things for granted or to overclaim. But we're up to 96%-97% PPM [Public Performance Measure] and a very high proportion of that is absolutely 100% on time.2023 February 8, Paul Stephen with Howard Smith, “Elizabeth Line: "It's not job done yet"”, in RAIL, number 976, page 35

Questions about overclaiming

What is overclaiming the present participle and gerund of?
Overclaiming is the present participle and gerund of overclaim.

Words near overclaiming in the dictionary

  1. overcladded
  2. overcladding
  3. overclads
  4. overclaim
  5. overclaimed
  6. overclaiming
  7. overclaims
  8. overclasp
  9. overclasped
  10. overclasping
  11. overclasps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overclaiming (page history and authors); overclaim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overclaiming.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overclaiming. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.