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overseal

overseal verb: to close with a seal at the top.

Verb

overseal (third-person singular simple present overseals, present participle oversealing, simple past and past participle oversealed)

  1. (transitive) To close with a seal at the top.

Noun

overseal (plural overseals)

  1. A seal at the top of something, to close it.

Proper noun capitalized: Overseal

Overseal

  1. A village and civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2915).

Forms of overseal

Verb
third-person singular presentoverseals
present participleoversealing
past participleoversealed
pastoversealed
Noun
pluraloverseals

Origin of overseal

From over- + seal.

Questions about overseal

What does overseal mean?
Overseal means to close with a seal at the top.
What part of speech is overseal?
Overseal can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of overseal?
The past tense of overseal is oversealed.

Words near overseal in the dictionary

  1. overscrupulosity
  2. overscrupulous
  3. overscrupulously
  4. overscrupulousness
  5. oversea
  6. overseal
  7. oversealed
  8. oversealing
  9. overseals
  10. overseam
  11. overseamed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overseal (page history and authors); Overseal (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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