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overgesture

overgesture verb: to gesture excessively.

Verb

overgesture (third-person singular simple present overgestures, present participle overgesturing, simple past and past participle overgestured)

  1. To gesture excessively.
    • He overgestured and laughed too much, and at some point in his young life he'd had the bone of his skull opened at the temples and filled with jagged lightning-flash sections of purple-black alloy cement.2005, Richard Morgan, Woken Furies, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 487

Forms of overgesture

third-person singular presentovergestures
present participleovergesturing
past participleovergestured
pastovergestured

Origin of overgesture

From over- + gesture.

Questions about overgesture

What does overgesture mean?
Overgesture means to gesture excessively.
What part of speech is overgesture?
Overgesture is a verb.
What is the past tense of overgesture?
The past tense of overgesture is overgestured.

Words near overgesture in the dictionary

  1. overgesticulated
  2. overgesticulates
  3. overgesticulating
  4. overgesticulation
  5. overgesticulations
  6. overgesture
  7. overgestured
  8. overgestures
  9. overgesturing
  10. overget
  11. overgets

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