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overgesturing

overgesturing is the present participle and gerund of overgesture.

Meaning of overgesture

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

Questions about overgesturing

What is overgesturing the present participle and gerund of?
Overgesturing is the present participle and gerund of overgesture.

Words near overgesturing in the dictionary

  1. overgesticulation
  2. overgesticulations
  3. overgesture
  4. overgestured
  5. overgestures
  6. overgesturing
  7. overget
  8. overgets
  9. overgetting
  10. overgifted
  11. overgild

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