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overpamper

overpamper verb: to pamper excessively.

Verb

overpamper (third-person singular simple present overpampers, present participle overpampering, simple past and past participle overpampered)

  1. (transitive) To pamper excessively.
    • […] and of great Ganges tell, / Which when full India's showers inforceth him to swell, / Gilds with his glistering sands the over-pampered shore: […]1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 15 p. 243

Forms of overpamper

third-person singular presentoverpampers
present participleoverpampering
past participleoverpampered
pastoverpampered

Origin of overpamper

From over- + pamper.

Questions about overpamper

What does overpamper mean?
Overpamper means to pamper excessively.
What part of speech is overpamper?
Overpamper is a verb.
What is the past tense of overpamper?
The past tense of overpamper is overpampered.

Words near overpamper in the dictionary

  1. overpainting
  2. overpaintings
  3. overpaints
  4. overpair
  5. overpairs
  6. overpamper
  7. overpampered
  8. overpampering
  9. overpampers
  10. overpants
  11. overparameterise

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