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overflour

overflour verb: to put too much flour in or on.

Verb

overflour (third-person singular simple present overflours, present participle overflouring, simple past and past participle overfloured)

  1. (transitive) To put too much flour in or on.
    • to overflour the dough
    • to overflour a kneading-board

Forms of overflour

third-person singular presentoverflours
present participleoverflouring
past participleoverfloured
pastoverfloured

Origin of overflour

over- + flour

Questions about overflour

What does overflour mean?
Overflour means to put too much flour in or on.
What part of speech is overflour?
Overflour is a verb.
What is the past tense of overflour?
The past tense of overflour is overfloured.

Words near overflour in the dictionary

  1. overflooding
  2. overfloodings
  3. overfloods
  4. overflorid
  5. overfloridness
  6. overflour
  7. overfloured
  8. overflouring
  9. overflourish
  10. overflourished
  11. overflourishes

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