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overscrawl

overscrawl verb: to scrawl over.

Verb

overscrawl (third-person singular simple present overscrawls, present participle overscrawling, simple past and past participle overscrawled)

  1. (transitive) To scrawl over.

Forms of overscrawl

third-person singular presentoverscrawls
present participleoverscrawling
past participleoverscrawled
pastoverscrawled

Origin of overscrawl

From over- + scrawl.

Questions about overscrawl

What does overscrawl mean?
Overscrawl means to scrawl over.
What part of speech is overscrawl?
Overscrawl is a verb.
What is the past tense of overscrawl?
The past tense of overscrawl is overscrawled.

Words near overscrawl in the dictionary

  1. overschools
  2. overscore
  3. overscored
  4. overscores
  5. overscoring
  6. overscrawl
  7. overscrawled
  8. overscrawling
  9. overscrawls
  10. overscreen
  11. overscreened

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