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overhollow

overhollow verb: to hollow excessively.

Verb

overhollow (third-person singular simple present overhollows, present participle overhollowing, simple past and past participle overhollowed)

  1. (transitive) To hollow excessively.
    • Many individuals who normally have a good standing posture overhollow the lower back under some conditions as, for instance, when they wear high heels, after they have been standing for a long time, when they raise their arms […]1959, Loraine Frost, Posture and Body Mechanics (Revised), page 8

Forms of overhollow

third-person singular presentoverhollows
present participleoverhollowing
past participleoverhollowed
pastoverhollowed

Origin of overhollow

From over- + hollow.

Questions about overhollow

What does overhollow mean?
Overhollow means to hollow excessively.
What part of speech is overhollow?
Overhollow is a verb.
What is the past tense of overhollow?
The past tense of overhollow is overhollowed.

Words near overhollow in the dictionary

  1. overhits
  2. overhitting
  3. overhold
  4. overholding
  5. overholds
  6. overhollow
  7. overhollowed
  8. overhollowing
  9. overhollows
  10. overholy
  11. overhomely

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