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overshower

overshower verb: to shower from above; to dispense liberally to.

Verb

overshower (third-person singular simple present overshowers, present participle overshowering, simple past and past participle overshowered)

  1. (transitive) To shower from above; to dispense liberally to.
    • […] they are said to hate and punish wrong and violence; they may show mercy to those who call upon them in their afflictions, their faithful worshipper they overshower with favors.1906, The Lutheran Quarterly, volume 36, page 74
  2. (intransitive) To shower (wash one's body in a shower) too much or too long.
    • Don't overshower. Wetting the skin is a vicious cycle. You want to add moisture to your skin by trapping it under the moisturizer, but you don't want to strip away moisture.2000, Deborah A. Cohen, Just Get Me Through This!: The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer

Forms of overshower

third-person singular presentovershowers
present participleovershowering
past participleovershowered
pastovershowered

Origin of overshower

From over- + shower.

Questions about overshower

What does overshower mean?
Overshower means to shower from above; to dispense liberally to.
What part of speech is overshower?
Overshower is a verb.
What is the past tense of overshower?
The past tense of overshower is overshowered.

Words near overshower in the dictionary

  1. overshortens
  2. overshot
  3. overshots
  4. overshow
  5. overshowed
  6. overshower
  7. overshowered
  8. overshowering
  9. overshowers
  10. overshowing
  11. overshown

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