Word.ws English Dictionary

overscribble

overscribble verb: to scribble over.

Verb

overscribble (third-person singular simple present overscribbles, present participle overscribbling, simple past and past participle overscribbled)

  1. (transitive) To scribble over.

Forms of overscribble

third-person singular presentoverscribbles
present participleoverscribbling
past participleoverscribbled
pastoverscribbled

Origin of overscribble

From over- + scribble.

Questions about overscribble

What does overscribble mean?
Overscribble means to scribble over.
What part of speech is overscribble?
Overscribble is a verb.
What is the past tense of overscribble?
The past tense of overscribble is overscribbled.

Words near overscribble in the dictionary

  1. overscrawls
  2. overscreen
  3. overscreened
  4. overscreening
  5. overscreens
  6. overscribble
  7. overscribbled
  8. overscribbles
  9. overscribbling
  10. overscroll
  11. overscrolled

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overscribble (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: “overscribble.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overscribble. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.