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overtint

overtint verb: to tint excessively.

Verb

overtint (third-person singular simple present overtints, present participle overtinting, simple past and past participle overtinted)

  1. (transitive) To tint excessively.
    • The actual amount of color required is very small and care must be exercised not to overtint the wool, or a bluish tone will be obtained.1909, Joseph Merritt Matthews, Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry, page 31
  2. (transitive) To apply another tint over.

Noun

overtint (plural overtints)

  1. A tint layered over another.
    • She wore the same dress she had worn that Sunday of their tryst; that exquisite dress, with the faint lavender overtint, like the tender colours of the beautiful day he made his own.1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan

Forms of overtint

Verb
third-person singular presentovertints
present participleovertinting
past participleovertinted
pastovertinted
Noun
pluralovertints

Origin of overtint

From over- + tint.

Questions about overtint

What does overtint mean?
Overtint means to tint excessively.
What part of speech is overtint?
Overtint can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of overtint?
The past tense of overtint is overtinted.

Words near overtint in the dictionary

  1. overtimes
  2. overtimidity
  3. overtiming
  4. overtimorous
  5. overtimorousness
  6. overtint
  7. overtinted
  8. overtinting
  9. overtints
  10. overtip
  11. overtipped

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