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overscreen

overscreen verb: to screen excessively.

Verb

overscreen (third-person singular simple present overscreens, present participle overscreening, simple past and past participle overscreened)

  1. To screen excessively

Forms of overscreen

third-person singular presentoverscreens
present participleoverscreening
past participleoverscreened
pastoverscreened

Origin of overscreen

From over- + screen.

Questions about overscreen

What does overscreen mean?
Overscreen means to screen excessively.
What part of speech is overscreen?
Overscreen is a verb.
What is the past tense of overscreen?
The past tense of overscreen is overscreened.

Words near overscreen in the dictionary

  1. overscoring
  2. overscrawl
  3. overscrawled
  4. overscrawling
  5. overscrawls
  6. overscreen
  7. overscreened
  8. overscreening
  9. overscreens
  10. overscribble
  11. overscribbled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overscreen (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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