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overglance

overglance verb: to glance over.

Verb

overglance (third-person singular simple present overglances, present participle overglancing, simple past and past participle overglanced)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To glance over.
    • with a cursorary eye o'erglanced the articles1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of overglance

third-person singular presentoverglances
present participleoverglancing
past participleoverglanced
pastoverglanced

Origin of overglance

From over- + glance.

Questions about overglance

What does overglance mean?
Overglance means to glance over.
What part of speech is overglance?
Overglance is a verb.
What is the past tense of overglance?
The past tense of overglance is overglanced.

Words near overglance in the dictionary

  1. overglamorization
  2. overglamorize
  3. overglamorized
  4. overglamorizes
  5. overglamorizing
  6. overglance
  7. overglanced
  8. overglances
  9. overglancing
  10. overglaze
  11. overglazed

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