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overinflate

overinflate verb: to inflate excessively; to provide too much inflation.

Verb

overinflate (third-person singular simple present overinflates, present participle overinflating, simple past and past participle overinflated)

  1. To inflate excessively; to provide too much inflation
    • The tires had been overinflated, leading to a blowout.

Forms of overinflate

third-person singular presentoverinflates
present participleoverinflating
past participleoverinflated
pastoverinflated

Origin of overinflate

From over- + inflate.

Words formed from overinflate

Questions about overinflate

What does overinflate mean?
Overinflate means to inflate excessively; to provide too much inflation.
What part of speech is overinflate?
Overinflate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overinflate?
The past tense of overinflate is overinflated.

Words near overinflate in the dictionary

  1. overindustrialize
  2. overindustrialized
  3. overindustrializes
  4. overindustrializing
  5. overindustrious
  6. overinflate
  7. overinflated
  8. overinflates
  9. overinflating
  10. overinflation
  11. overinflations

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