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overheal

overheal verb: to heal over.

Verb (1)

overheal (third-person singular simple present overheals, present participle overhealing, simple past and past participle overhealed)

  1. (intransitive) To heal over.
  2. (intransitive) To heal excessively or beyond the point of normal healing, usually resulting in the formation of scar tissue.
    • First, the tissues can heal slowly and inadequately. Second, the tissues can overheal and deposit and overabundance of fibrotic wound matrix […]2011, Song Li, Nicolas L'Heureux, Jennifer Elisseeff, Stem Cell and Tissue Engineering
  3. (transitive) To heal (a character) beyond the usual maximum level of health.

Verb (2)

overheal (third-person singular simple present overheals, present participle overhealing, simple past overhole, past participle overholen)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cover over.

Forms of overheal

third-person singular presentoverheals
present participleoverhealing
past participleoverhealed
pastoverhealed
pastoverhole
past participleoverholen

Origin of overheal

From over- + heal.

From Middle English overhelen, equivalent to over- + heal (“to cover”).

Questions about overheal

What does overheal mean?
Overheal means to heal over.
What part of speech is overheal?
Overheal is a verb.
What is the past tense of overheal?
The past tense of overheal is overhealed.

Words near overheal in the dictionary

  1. overhead valves
  2. overheadman
  3. overheadmen
  4. overheads
  5. overheady
  6. overheal
  7. overhealed
  8. overhealing
  9. overheals
  10. overheap
  11. overheaped

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