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overgain

overgain verb: to gain too much.

Verb

overgain (third-person singular simple present overgains, present participle overgaining, simple past and past participle overgained)

  1. To gain too much.
    • to overgain weight during pregnancy
  2. (transitive) To apply too much gain to (a signal).
    • Second, the practitioner must be careful to avoid overgaining the spectral display, which can cause indistinct envelopes.2008, Hugh D. Allen, Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 7th edition

Noun

overgain

  1. Excessive gain.

overgain meaning in Tamil

overgain in Tamil

கொள்ளையூதியம்

Forms of overgain

third-person singular presentovergains
present participleovergaining
past participleovergained
pastovergained

Origin of overgain

From over- + gain.

Questions about overgain

What does overgain mean?
Overgain means to gain too much.
What is overgain in Tamil?
Overgain in Tamil is கொள்ளையூதியம். See Overgain meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overgain?
Overgain can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overgain?
The past tense of overgain is overgained.

Words near overgain in the dictionary

  1. overfurnishes
  2. overfurnishing
  3. overfussy
  4. Overgaard
  5. Overgaards
  6. overgain
  7. overgained
  8. overgaining
  9. overgains
  10. overgamble
  11. overgambled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overgain (page history and authors); overgain (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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