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overnapping

overnapping is the present participle and gerund of overnap.

Meaning of overnap

Verb

overnap (third-person singular simple present overnaps, present participle overnapping, simple past and past participle overnapped)

  1. (colloquial, rare, transitive) To take too many short sleeps.
    • If you overnap in the daytime, you may have trouble sleeping at night.

Questions about overnapping

What is overnapping the present participle and gerund of?
Overnapping is the present participle and gerund of overnap.

Words near overnapping in the dictionary

  1. overnamed
  2. overnames
  3. overnaming
  4. overnap
  5. overnapped
  6. overnapping
  7. overnaps
  8. overnarrow
  9. overnarrowly
  10. overnationalization
  11. overnear

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overnapping (page history and authors); overnap (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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