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overreject

overreject verb: to reject excessively.

Verb

overreject (third-person singular simple present overrejects, present participle overrejecting, simple past and past participle overrejected)

  1. To reject excessively

Forms of overreject

third-person singular presentoverrejects
present participleoverrejecting
past participleoverrejected
pastoverrejected

Origin of overreject

From over- + reject.

Questions about overreject

What does overreject mean?
Overreject means to reject excessively.
What part of speech is overreject?
Overreject is a verb.
What is the past tense of overreject?
The past tense of overreject is overrejected.

Words near overreject in the dictionary

  1. overregulates
  2. overregulating
  3. overregulation
  4. overregulations
  5. overrehearsed
  6. overreject
  7. overrejection
  8. overrejections
  9. overrejects
  10. overrelativize
  11. overrelativized

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