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oversave

oversave verb: to save more money than is necessary or prudent.

Verb

oversave (third-person singular simple present oversaves, present participle oversaving, simple past and past participle oversaved)

  1. (intransitive) To save more money than is necessary or prudent.

Forms of oversave

third-person singular presentoversaves
present participleoversaving
past participleoversaved
pastoversaved

Origin of oversave

From over- + save.

Words formed from oversave

Questions about oversave

What does oversave mean?
Oversave means to save more money than is necessary or prudent.
What part of speech is oversave?
Oversave is a verb.
What is the past tense of oversave?
The past tense of oversave is oversaved.

Words near oversave in the dictionary

  1. oversauce
  2. oversauced
  3. oversauces
  4. oversaucing
  5. oversaucy
  6. oversave
  7. oversaved
  8. oversaver
  9. oversavers
  10. oversaves
  11. oversaving

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