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overhold

overhold verb: to overvalue; overestimate; hold or estimate at too dear a rate.

Verb

overhold (third-person singular simple present overholds, present participle overholding, simple past overheld, past participle overheld or overholden)

  1. (transitive) To overvalue; overestimate; hold or estimate at too dear a rate.
    • if he overhold his price so muchc. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • That is your opinion: you state here that you were induced to overhold the land […]1854, REPORTS FROM SELECT COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND EVIDENCE
  2. (transitive) To hold over; keep.

Noun

overhold (plural overholds)

  1. The act or process of holding over.
    • Overholding clauses serve the purpose of contractually regulating the terms and conditions of an overhold.2002, Walter H. Posner, The Leasing Process: A Guide for the Commercial Tenant

Synonyms of overhold

Antonyms

Forms of overhold

Verb
third-person singular presentoverholds
present participleoverholding
pastoverheld
past participleoverheld
past participleoverholden
Noun
pluraloverholds

Origin of overhold

From Middle English overholden, from Old English oferhealdan (“to overcome, overtake, hold over, delay to do, neglect”), from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”) + *haldaną (“to hold”), equivalent to over- + hold. Cognate with Dutch overhouden (“to hang on, hold over, save”), German überhalten (“to hold on to, keep”), Danish overholde (“to observe”).

Words formed from overhold

Questions about overhold

What does overhold mean?
Overhold means to overvalue; overestimate; hold or estimate at too dear a rate.
What part of speech is overhold?
Overhold can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overhold?
The past tense of overhold is overheld.

Words near overhold in the dictionary

  1. overhires
  2. overhiring
  3. overhit
  4. overhits
  5. overhitting
  6. overhold
  7. overholding
  8. overholds
  9. overhollow
  10. overhollowed
  11. overhollowing

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