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overjudge

overjudge verb: to judge excessively or too harshly.

Verb

overjudge (third-person singular simple present overjudges, present participle overjudging, simple past and past participle overjudged)

  1. (transitive) To judge excessively or too harshly.
    • It seems incongruous for the plaintiff to claim that the defendant should overjudge him in a matter in which he assumed to judge and to do all that he required or supposed necessary to be done in the premises, and that the defendant should be responsible for the inadequacy of what the plaintiff...1877, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont
    • The most ordinary temptation of the cultivated mind is to desire to criticize too much, to overjudge, to criticize even that of which he knows nothing.1914, David Josiah Brewer, Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence Representing the Advance of Civilization

Noun

overjudge (plural overjudges)

  1. A supreme or superior judge.
    • But without importing into the case any extravagant conclusions, no doubt need be entertained that the overjudge at Strassburg wielded an immense influence; although, looking at the whole spirit of the Ordinances before us, it is hardly conceivable that his judicial decisions were promulgated on...1883, Robert Freke Gould, The history of freemasonry

Antonyms of overjudge

Forms of overjudge

Verb
third-person singular presentoverjudges
present participleoverjudging
past participleoverjudged
pastoverjudged
Noun
pluraloverjudges

Origin of overjudge

From over- + judge.

Questions about overjudge

What does overjudge mean?
Overjudge means to judge excessively or too harshly.
What part of speech is overjudge?
Overjudge can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overjudge?
The past tense of overjudge is overjudged.

Words near overjudge in the dictionary

  1. overjoyfulness
  2. overjoying
  3. overjoyous
  4. overjoys
  5. overjubilant
  6. overjudge
  7. overjudged
  8. overjudgemental
  9. overjudges
  10. overjudging
  11. overjudgmental

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