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overfooting

overfooting is the present participle and gerund of overfoot.

Meaning of overfoot

Verb

overfoot (third-person singular simple present overfoots, present participle overfooting, simple past and past participle overfooted)

  1. To assign a column summary that is greater than the sum of all the entries in that column.
    • Another device is to underfoot the accounts receivable column and the net cash column in the record of cash receipts and to underfoot the debit or overfoot the credit side of one or more accounts in the customer's ledger by equal amounts.1932, Frank Hatch Streightoff, Advanced Accounting, page 140
    Antonyms:
    underfoot

Questions about overfooting

What is overfooting the present participle and gerund of?
Overfooting is the present participle and gerund of overfoot.

Words near overfooting in the dictionary

  1. overfondly
  2. overfondness
  3. overfoolish
  4. overfoot
  5. overfooted
  6. overfooting
  7. overfoots
  8. overforce
  9. overforceful
  10. overforcefully
  11. overforested

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