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overquoting

overquoting is the present participle and gerund 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 overquoting

What is overquoting the present participle and gerund of?
Overquoting is the present participle and gerund of overquote.

Words near overquoting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overquoting (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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