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overcolours

overcolours is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about overcolours

What is overcolours the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overcolours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overcolour.

Words near overcolours in the dictionary

  1. overcolors
  2. overcolour
  3. overcoloured
  4. overcolouring
  5. overcolourings
  6. overcolours
  7. overcomable
  8. overcomb
  9. overcombed
  10. overcombing
  11. overcombs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcolours (page history and authors); overcolour (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.

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