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overmarch

overmarch verb: to cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.

Verb

overmarch (third-person singular simple present overmarches, present participle overmarching, simple past and past participle overmarched)

  1. (transitive) To cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.
    • They had been overmarched and underfed and they had been ruinously beaten by the Rebels. Someone would have to work on them before they would amount to much as fighting troops.1953, Bruce Catton, The army of the Potomac

Forms of overmarch

third-person singular presentovermarches
present participleovermarching
past participleovermarched
pastovermarched

Origin of overmarch

From over- + march.

Questions about overmarch

What does overmarch mean?
Overmarch means to cause to march too far, or too often; to exhaust by marching.
What part of speech is overmarch?
Overmarch is a verb.
What is the past tense of overmarch?
The past tense of overmarch is overmarched.

Words near overmarch in the dictionary

  1. overmanures
  2. overmanuring
  3. overmany
  4. overmap
  5. overmaps
  6. overmarch
  7. overmarched
  8. overmarches
  9. overmarching
  10. overmargin
  11. overmargined

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