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overtraining

overtraining is the present participle and gerund of overtrain.

Meaning of overtrain

Verb

overtrain (third-person singular simple present overtrains, present participle overtraining, simple past and past participle overtrained)

  1. (ambitransitive) To train too much or too long.
    • Jim overtrained and found that he was exhausted by the time of the competition.

Questions about overtraining

What is overtraining the present participle and gerund of?
Overtraining is the present participle and gerund of overtrain.

Words near overtraining in the dictionary

  1. overtrades
  2. overtrading
  3. overtradings
  4. overtrain
  5. overtrained
  6. overtraining
  7. overtrains
  8. overtrample
  9. overtrampled
  10. overtramples
  11. overtrampling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overtraining (page history and authors); overtrain (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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