Word.ws English Dictionary

overrequest

overrequest verb: to request too much or too often.

Verb

overrequest (third-person singular simple present overrequests, present participle overrequesting, simple past and past participle overrequested)

  1. (transitive) To request too much or too often.
    • That song has been overrequested on the radio.

Forms of overrequest

third-person singular presentoverrequests
present participleoverrequesting
past participleoverrequested
pastoverrequested

Origin of overrequest

From over- + request.

Questions about overrequest

What does overrequest mean?
Overrequest means to request too much or too often.
What part of speech is overrequest?
Overrequest is a verb.
What is the past tense of overrequest?
The past tense of overrequest is overrequested.

Words near overrequest in the dictionary

  1. overrepresentative
  2. overrepresented
  3. overrepresenting
  4. overrepresents
  5. overrepression
  6. overrequest
  7. overrequested
  8. overrequesting
  9. overrequests
  10. overresearched
  11. overreserve

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overrequest (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “overrequest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overrequest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.