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overcompressed

overcompressed is the simple past and past participle of overcompress.

Meaning of overcompress

Verb

overcompress (third-person singular simple present overcompresses, present participle overcompressing, simple past and past participle overcompressed)

  1. (transitive) To compress too much.

Adjective

overcompressed (comparative more overcompressed, superlative most overcompressed)

  1. Excessively compressed; subject to overcompression.

Forms of overcompressed

comparativemore overcompressed
superlativemost overcompressed

Questions about overcompressed

What does overcompressed mean?
Overcompressed means excessively compressed; subject to overcompression.
What is overcompressed the simple past and past participle of?
Overcompressed is the simple past and past participle of overcompress.
What part of speech is overcompressed?
Overcompressed is an adjective.

Words near overcompressed in the dictionary

  1. overcomplimented
  2. overcomplimenting
  3. overcompliments
  4. overcomposed
  5. overcompress
  6. overcompressed
  7. overcompresses
  8. overcompressing
  9. overcompression
  10. overconcentrate
  11. overconcentrated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcompressed (page history and authors); overcompress (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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