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overhandle

overhandle verb: to handle excessively.

Verb

overhandle (third-person singular simple present overhandles, present participle overhandling, simple past and past participle overhandled)

  1. (transitive) To handle excessively.
    • What makes these goodies different, the company says, is that they are formed by robotic machines so that the dough is not toughened by overhandling.2008 March 26, Florence Fabricant, “Croissants Made by Robots”, in New York Times

overhandle meaning in Bengali

overhandle in Bengali

অত্যধিক নাড়াচাড়া করা

Forms of overhandle

third-person singular presentoverhandles
present participleoverhandling
past participleoverhandled
pastoverhandled

Origin of overhandle

From over- + handle.

Words that rhyme with overhandle

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about overhandle

What does overhandle mean?
Overhandle means to handle excessively.
What is overhandle in Bengali?
Overhandle in Bengali is অত্যধিক নাড়াচাড়া করা. See Overhandle meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is overhandle?
Overhandle is a verb.
What is the past tense of overhandle?
The past tense of overhandle is overhandled.

Words near overhandle in the dictionary

  1. overhandicap
  2. overhandicapped
  3. overhandicapping
  4. overhandicaps
  5. overhanding
  6. overhandle
  7. overhandled
  8. overhandles
  9. overhandling
  10. overhands
  11. overhang

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overhandle (page history and authors); overhandle (Bengali 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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