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overpained

overpained adjective: excessively pained.

Adjective

overpained (comparative more overpained, superlative most overpained)

  1. Excessively pained.
    • […] when thou art overpained with passions […]1814, Robert Greene, Greene's Arcadia; Or, Menaphon, page 1814
    • Would Lennie be overjoyed, or overpained?2019, April D. Brown, Bending the Bars (page 280)

Forms of overpained

comparativemore overpained
superlativemost overpained

Origin of overpained

From over- + pained.

Questions about overpained

What does overpained mean?
Overpained means excessively pained.
What part of speech is overpained?
Overpained is an adjective.

Words near overpained in the dictionary

  1. overpadded
  2. overpadding
  3. overpads
  4. overpage
  5. overpaid
  6. overpained
  7. overpainful
  8. overpaint
  9. overpainted
  10. overpainting
  11. overpaintings

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