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overreplacing

overreplacing is the present participle and gerund 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 overreplacing

What is overreplacing the present participle and gerund of?
Overreplacing is the present participle and gerund of overreplace.

Words near overreplacing in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overreplacing (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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