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overlaunches

overlaunches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overlaunch.

Meaning of overlaunch

Verb

overlaunch (third-person singular simple present overlaunches, present participle overlaunching, simple past and past participle overlaunched)

  1. (transitive) To run the butts or scarphs of planks or pieces of timber to a certain distance beyond the adjacent ones, in order to strengthen the work.

Questions about overlaunches

What is overlaunches the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overlaunches is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overlaunch.

Words near overlaunches in the dictionary

  1. overlauded
  2. overlauding
  3. overlauds
  4. overlaunch
  5. overlaunched
  6. overlaunches
  7. overlaunching
  8. overlavish
  9. overlavishly
  10. overlavishness
  11. overlax

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overlaunches (page history and authors); overlaunch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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