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overnumbered

overnumbered is the simple past and past participle of overnumber.

Meaning of overnumber

Verb

overnumber (third-person singular simple present overnumbers, present participle overnumbering, simple past and past participle overnumbered)

  1. (transitive, archaic or non-native speakers' English) To outnumber.
    • In the most acute cases they may greatly overnumber the white corpuscles and epithelial cells.1900, United States, Annual Reports of the War Department, War Department, page 774

Adjective

overnumbered (comparative more overnumbered, superlative most overnumbered)

  1. (archaic or non-native speakers' English) outnumbered

Forms of overnumbered

comparativemore overnumbered
superlativemost overnumbered

Questions about overnumbered

What does overnumbered mean?
Overnumbered means outnumbered.
What is overnumbered the simple past and past participle of?
Overnumbered is the simple past and past participle of overnumber.
What part of speech is overnumbered?
Overnumbered is an adjective.

Words near overnumbered in the dictionary

  1. overnourished
  2. overnourishes
  3. overnourishing
  4. overnourishment
  5. overnumber
  6. overnumbered
  7. overnumbering
  8. overnumbers
  9. overnumerous
  10. overnumerousness
  11. overnurse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overnumbered (page history and authors); overnumber (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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