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overcolor

overcolor is the alternative spelling of overcolour.

Meaning of overcolour

Verb

overcolour (third-person singular simple present overcolours, present participle overcolouring, simple past and past participle overcoloured)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To exaggerate.
    • But simultaneously, the growing force of her mind's intelligence, wherein was no enthusiasm to misdirect by overcolouring, enabled her to gather more than a suspicion of comparative feebleness in the man stripped of his terrors.1895, George Meredith, The Amazing Marriage

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Forms of overcolor

third-person singular presentovercolors
present participleovercoloring
past participleovercolored
pastovercolored

Origin of overcolor

From over- + color.

Questions about overcolor

What is overcolor the alternative spelling of?
Overcolor is the alternative spelling of overcolour.

Words near overcolor in the dictionary

  1. overcollateralizing
  2. overcollect
  3. overcollection
  4. overcollections
  5. overcollectivization
  6. overcolor
  7. overcolored
  8. overcoloring
  9. overcolors
  10. overcolour
  11. overcoloured

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