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overtempt

overtempt verb: to tempt exceedingly, or beyond someone's resistance.

Verb

overtempt (third-person singular simple present overtempts, present participle overtempting, simple past and past participle overtempted)

  1. To tempt exceedingly, or beyond someone's resistance.
    • the soul[…]should be overtempted and cast away1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC

Forms of overtempt

third-person singular presentovertempts
present participleovertempting
past participleovertempted
pastovertempted

Origin of overtempt

From over- + tempt.

Questions about overtempt

What does overtempt mean?
Overtempt means to tempt exceedingly, or beyond someone's resistance.
What part of speech is overtempt?
Overtempt is a verb.
What is the past tense of overtempt?
The past tense of overtempt is overtempted.

Words near overtempt in the dictionary

  1. overtells
  2. overtemp
  3. overtemperature
  4. overtemperatures
  5. overtemps
  6. overtempt
  7. overtempted
  8. overtempting
  9. overtempts
  10. overtenacious
  11. overtender

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