overcut
overcut verb: to cut excessively.
Verb
overcut (third-person singular simple present overcuts, present participle overcutting, simple past and past participle overcut)
- To cut excessively.
- To employ the overcut strategy.
Adjective
overcut (comparative more overcut, superlative most overcut)
- Excessively cut.
Noun
overcut (usually uncountable, plural overcuts)
- The act or result of excessive cutting.
- It is better to make a sale a little under this limit, to allow for a possible excess cutting. Where through poor estimating there is an overcut, the excess should be charged to the original sale in Class B as in Class C sales.1907, United States Forest Services, Field Program, Government Printing Office, page 15
- (3) Forest of Mont Glore. An example of errors in early yield calculation which resulted in an overcut.1920, Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, William Buckhout Greeley, Where No Wood Is, Wiley, page 500
- An opening resulting from such cutting; an extreme incision or wound.
- A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
- Antonyms:
- undercut
Examples of overcut in a sentence
- Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.1944, Ovid Butler, American Forests 1944-03: Volume 50, Issue 3, American Forests, page 112:
- Residents attributed the alleged overcut to several factors.2005, Complete Decks, Meredith Books, page 209:
- (i) Bottle gourd shall be (f) clean, free of any visible foreign matter; (g) free from bruising or extensive healed overcuts;2012, Directorate of Printing, Government of India, Extraordinary Gazette of India, 2012, No. 492, Wiley, page 40:
Antonyms of overcut
Forms of overcut
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | overcuts |
| present participle | overcutting |
| past participle | overcut |
| past | overcut |
| alternative form | over-cut |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more overcut |
| superlative | most overcut |
| Noun | |
| plural | overcuts |
Origin of overcut
From over- + cut.
Words that rhyme with overcut
Questions about overcut
- What does overcut mean?
- Overcut means to cut excessively.
- How do you use overcut in a sentence?
- Such an overcut would be serious since French forests have not recovered from the last war.
- What part of speech is overcut?
- Overcut can be a verb, an adjective or a noun.
- What is the past tense of overcut?
- The past tense of overcut is overcut.
Words near overcut in the dictionary
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