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overstrike

/əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/

overstrike verb: to overreach oneself while striking.

Verb

overstrike (third-person singular simple present overstrikes, present participle overstriking, simple past overstruck, past participle overstruck or (rare) overstricken)

  1. (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.
    • For as he in his rage him overstrooke, / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
  3. (transitive) To strike (something) too hard.

Noun

UK/ˈəʊvəstɹʌɪk/

overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)

  1. A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
  2. The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
  3. (uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)

overstrike meaning in Tamil and Bengali

overstrike in Tamil

எழுதியதை அடிக்கப் பயன்படுத்தும் மேற்கோடு, மேலடி, மேற்கோடிடு

overstrike in Bengali

খুব জোরে আঘাত করা, ওভারটাইপ

Forms of overstrike

Verb
third-person singular presentoverstrikes
present participleoverstriking
pastoverstruck
past participleoverstruck
past participle (rare)overstricken
Noun
pluraloverstrikes

Origin of overstrike

From over- + strike.

Questions about overstrike

What does overstrike mean?
Overstrike means to overreach oneself while striking.
What is overstrike in Tamil?
Overstrike in Tamil is எழுதியதை அடிக்கப் பயன்படுத்தும் மேற்கோடு, மேலடி, மேற்கோடிடு. See Overstrike meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is overstrike?
Overstrike can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce overstrike?
Overstrike is pronounced /əʊvəˈstɹʌɪk/ (UK).
What is the past tense of overstrike?
The past tense of overstrike is overstruck.

Words near overstrike in the dictionary

  1. overstridden
  2. overstride
  3. overstrident
  4. overstrides
  5. overstriding
  6. overstrike
  7. overstrikes
  8. overstriking
  9. overstringent
  10. overstrive
  11. overstriven

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overstrike (page history and authors); overstrike (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overstrike (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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