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overgrace

overgrace verb: to grace excessively.

Verb

overgrace (third-person singular simple present overgraces, present participle overgracing, simple past and past participle overgraced)

  1. To grace excessively.
    • Though this be worse Than that you spake before, it strikes me not; / But that you think to overgrace me with / The marriage of your Sister, troubles me.1612 January 5 (first performance, Gregorian calendar; published 1619), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A King, and No King”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and...

Forms of overgrace

third-person singular presentovergraces
present participleovergracing
past participleovergraced
pastovergraced

Origin of overgrace

From over- + grace.

Questions about overgrace

What does overgrace mean?
Overgrace means to grace excessively.
What part of speech is overgrace?
Overgrace is a verb.
What is the past tense of overgrace?
The past tense of overgrace is overgraced.

Words near overgrace in the dictionary

  1. overgoverning
  2. overgovernment
  3. overgoverns
  4. overgown
  5. overgowns
  6. overgrace
  7. overgraced
  8. overgracious
  9. overgrade
  10. overgraded
  11. overgrades

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