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overreplaces

overreplaces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overreplace.

Meaning of overreplace

Verb

overreplace (third-person singular simple present overreplaces, present participle overreplacing, simple past and past participle overreplaced)

  1. To replace in excess
    • While it is a common error to overreplace blood losses and to give too great volumes of electrolyte solutions to elderly patients, it is just as common to give too little.1963, John Ervin Jesseph, Henry Nelson Harkins, Geriatric Surgical Emergencies, →ISBN, page 200

Questions about overreplaces

What is overreplaces the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overreplaces is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overreplace.

Words near overreplaces in the dictionary

  1. overrepetition
  2. overreplace
  3. overreplaced
  4. overreplacement
  5. overreplacements
  6. overreplaces
  7. overreplacing
  8. overreplete
  9. overrepletion
  10. overreplicate
  11. overreplicated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreplaces (page history and authors); overreplace (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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