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overquoted

overquoted is the simple past and past participle of overquote.

Meaning of overquote

Verb

overquote (third-person singular simple present overquotes, present participle overquoting, simple past and past participle overquoted)

  1. (ambitransitive) To give a quotation (price estimate) that is too high.
    Antonyms:
    underquote
  2. (ambitransitive) To quote too much.
    • a student who overquotes the works of Shakespeare

Questions about overquoted

What is overquoted the simple past and past participle of?
Overquoted is the simple past and past participle of overquote.

Words near overquoted in the dictionary

  1. overquietly
  2. overquietness
  3. overquotation
  4. overquotations
  5. overquote
  6. overquoted
  7. overquotes
  8. overquoting
  9. overrace
  10. overraced
  11. overraces

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overquoted (page history and authors); overquote (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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