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overweights

overweights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overweight.

Meaning of overweight

Verb

overweight (third-person singular simple present overweights, present participle overweighting, simple past and past participle overweighted)

  1. (transitive) To weigh down: to put too heavy a burden on.
    • Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To place excessive weight or emphasis on; to overestimate the importance of.
    • We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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What is overweights the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Overweights is the third-person singular simple present indicative of overweight.

Words near overweights in the dictionary

  1. overweightage
  2. overweighted
  3. overweightedness
  4. overweighting
  5. overweightness
  6. overweights
  7. overwell
  8. overwelled
  9. overwelling
  10. overwells
  11. overwent

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