overstoring

Verb

overstore (third-person singular simple present overstores, present participle overstoring, simple past and past participle overstored)

1. To overstock; to save more than is needed.
   • This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish.1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler
2. (obsolete) To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put.
   • On every hand flourish trees, in the prime of a full score of years, Nature's aviaries, which are preparing hereafter to overstore the fruiteries from their burdened boughs, and now diversify the prospect with green and shade.1847 December, “Horticulture, Natural and Intellectual”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 13, number 2, page 50
3. To open more stores than the retail market needs.
   • This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it.1972, Booton Herndon, Satisfaction Guaranteed
4. To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
   • This inquisition, with its ardent commitment to interpretation and further interpretation, is the complementary process by which presented images overstored with expressive intention can have their meanings developed, brought forth in the full array of their latent possibility.1986, Richard H. Brodhead, The School of Hawthorne, page 167
5. To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
   • The wag, knowing the natural frailties of the parents, then asked— "Who combed your hair this morning, my pretty little boy?" and the answer was, very much to the astonishment of the parents, no doubt— "The Holy Ghost." While it is quite right to store the infant mind so far, it is just possible —...1878, Archibald Paul, Random Writings, page 113
6. To overwrite memory or storage.
   • An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message.1967, Boeing Company, Lunar Orbiter I: Extended-mission Operations - Issue 848, page 3

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