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overshopping

overshopping is the present participle and gerund of overshop.

Meaning of overshop

Verb

overshop (third-person singular simple present overshops, present participle overshopping, simple past and past participle overshopped)

  1. (intransitive) To spend too much time or money shopping.
    • Joanne came to the realization that she overshops to feel more attractive and to reward herself for doing the professional work she so often finds tedious.2008, April Lane Benson, To Buy Or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop

Questions about overshopping

What is overshopping the present participle and gerund of?
Overshopping is the present participle and gerund of overshop.

Words near overshopping in the dictionary

  1. overshooters
  2. overshooting
  3. overshoots
  4. overshop
  5. overshopped
  6. overshopping
  7. overshops
  8. overshort
  9. overshorten
  10. overshortened
  11. overshortening

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overshopping (page history and authors); overshop (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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