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overequip

overequip verb: to furnish with too much equipment.

Verb

overequip (third-person singular simple present overequips, present participle overequipping, simple past and past participle overequipped)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with too much equipment.
    • More precisely, he is overequipped: among the items he takes from London are a collapsible canoe, a Union Jack, six linen suits, an astrolabe and a portable humidor.2007 September 4, Margalit Fox, “Bill Deedes, Journalist in Britain, Is Dead at 94”, in New York Times

Forms of overequip

third-person singular presentoverequips
present participleoverequipping
past participleoverequipped
pastoverequipped

Origin of overequip

From over- + equip.

Questions about overequip

What does overequip mean?
Overequip means to furnish with too much equipment.
What part of speech is overequip?
Overequip is a verb.
What is the past tense of overequip?
The past tense of overequip is overequipped.

Words near overequip in the dictionary

  1. overenunciate
  2. overenunciated
  3. overenunciates
  4. overenunciating
  5. overenunciation
  6. overequip
  7. overequipped
  8. overequipping
  9. overequips
  10. overerupt
  11. overerupted

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