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overpitching

overpitching is the present participle and gerund of overpitch.

Meaning of overpitch

Verb

overpitch (third-person singular simple present overpitches, present participle overpitching, simple past and past participle overpitched)

  1. (transitive) To give too high a pitch to.
    • to overpitch a note in music
  2. (transitive) To bowl (the ball) so that it bounces closer to the batsman than a good length, allowing the batsman to hit it easily.

Questions about overpitching

What is overpitching the present participle and gerund of?
Overpitching is the present participle and gerund of overpitch.

Words near overpitching in the dictionary

  1. overpiling
  2. overpious
  3. overpitch
  4. overpitched
  5. overpitches
  6. overpitching
  7. overplace
  8. overplaced
  9. overplacement
  10. overplacements
  11. overplaces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overpitching (page history and authors); overpitch (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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