Word.ws English Dictionary

overstaging

overstaging is the present participle and gerund of overstage.

Meaning of overstage

Verb

overstage (third-person singular simple present overstages, present participle overstaging, simple past and past participle overstaged)

  1. To overestimate the severity of a patient's illness.
    Antonyms:
    understage

See all 2 meanings of overstage

Questions about overstaging

What is overstaging the present participle and gerund of?
Overstaging is the present participle and gerund of overstage.

Words near overstaging in the dictionary

  1. overstaffing
  2. overstaffs
  3. overstage
  4. overstaged
  5. overstages
  6. overstaging
  7. overstaid
  8. overstain
  9. overstained
  10. overstaining
  11. overstains

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: overstaging (page history and authors); overstage (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: “overstaging.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/overstaging. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.