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overlime

overlime verb: to treat (soil) with too much lime.

Verb

overlime (third-person singular simple present overlimes, present participle overliming, simple past and past participle overlimed)

  1. (transitive) To treat (soil) with too much lime.
    • Don't overlime acid soil, because availability of some nutrients may be decreased when the soil pH is too high.2004, Denny Schrock, Ortho Home Gardener's Problem Solver, page 407

Forms of overlime

third-person singular presentoverlimes
present participleoverliming
past participleoverlimed
pastoverlimed

Origin of overlime

From over- + lime.

Questions about overlime

What does overlime mean?
Overlime means to treat (soil) with too much lime.
What part of speech is overlime?
Overlime is a verb.
What is the past tense of overlime?
The past tense of overlime is overlimed.

Words near overlime in the dictionary

  1. overlightening
  2. overlightens
  3. overlighting
  4. overlightly
  5. overlights
  6. overlime
  7. overlimed
  8. overlimes
  9. overliming
  10. overlimit
  11. overlimited

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