oversouring
oversouring is the present participle and gerund of oversour.
Meaning of oversour
Verb
oversour (third-person singular simple present oversours, present participle oversouring, simple past and past participle oversoured)
- To become too sour.
- On warm days the milk might oversour, while on cooler days it would be found comparatively sweet unless a good deal of attention was given to keeping the temperature where it would sour in the proper length of time.1914, John Michels, Creamery Butter-making, page 85
Questions about oversouring
- What is oversouring the present participle and gerund of?
- Oversouring is the present participle and gerund of oversour.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: oversouring (page history and authors); oversour (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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