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overcompressing

overcompressing is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about overcompressing

What is overcompressing the present participle and gerund of?
Overcompressing is the present participle and gerund of overcompress.

Words near overcompressing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overcompressing (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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