All English words - page 2523

Meanings of Overripe:

adjective

Too ripe; past its best.

Usage examples:

Overripe tomatoes

Meanings of Overripeness:

noun

The state or quality of being too ripe.

Meanings of Overrise:

verb

Of dough, bread, etc.: to rise too high, so as to spoil.

Meanings of Overrisen:

adjective

That has risen too high, especially of dough, bread, etc.; (figurative) overweening, despotic. also of a ship: floating too high in the water, so as to become unstable.

Meanings of Overrising:

verb

Of dough, bread, etc.: to rise too high, so as to spoil.

Meanings of Overroof:

verb

To cover with or as with a roof.

Meanings of Overruff:

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump that is higher than one already played in the same trick.

Usage examples:

There was a danger that west would be able to overruff

noun

An act of overruffing.

Usage examples:

When you see the chance of an easy overruff, don't be in too much of a hurry to take it

Meanings of Overruffed:

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump that is higher than one already played in the same trick.

Usage examples:

There was a danger that west would be able to overruff

noun

An act of overruffing.

Usage examples:

When you see the chance of an easy overruff, don't be in too much of a hurry to take it

Meanings of Overruffing:

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump that is higher than one already played in the same trick.

Usage examples:

There was a danger that west would be able to overruff

noun

An act of overruffing.

Usage examples:

When you see the chance of an easy overruff, don't be in too much of a hurry to take it

Meanings of Overruffs:

verb

(in bridge, whist, and similar card games) play a trump that is higher than one already played in the same trick.

Usage examples:

There was a danger that west would be able to overruff

noun

An act of overruffing.

Usage examples:

When you see the chance of an easy overruff, don't be in too much of a hurry to take it

Meanings of Overrule:

verb

Reject or disallow by exercising one's superior authority.

Usage examples:

Chief judge moran overruled the government's objections

Meanings of Overruler:

noun

A person who controls, directs, or overrules others; one who holds supreme authority.

Meanings of Overruling:

verb

Reject or disallow by exercising one's superior authority.

Usage examples:

Chief judge moran overruled the government's objections

Meanings of Overrun:

verb

Spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers.

Usage examples:

The mediterranean has been overrun by tourists

noun

An instance of something exceeding an expected or allowed time or cost.

Usage examples:

The cost overrun caused the company's share price to fall

Meanings of Overrunner:

noun

A person who or thing which overruns something; specifically an invader, a despoiler.

Meanings of Overruns:

verb

Spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers.

Usage examples:

The mediterranean has been overrun by tourists

noun

An instance of something exceeding an expected or allowed time or cost.

Usage examples:

The cost overrun caused the company's share price to fall

Meanings of Overs:

noun

A sequence of six balls bowled by a bowler from one end of the pitch, after which another bowler takes over from the other end.

Usage examples:

He would bowl six overs, take wickets and get taken off because he was so unfit.

preposition

Extending directly upwards from.

Usage examples:

I saw flames over berlin

adverb

Expressing passage or trajectory across an area.

Usage examples:

He leant over and tapped me on the hand

adjective

Finished or complete.

Usage examples:

The match is over

Meanings of Oversales:

noun

A contracted sale in which the trader has insufficient stock to supply the agreed amount; (in plural) the amount by which contracted sales exceed available supply.

Meanings of Oversalt:

verb

To add too much salt to, make too salty; †to cure with salt for too long (obsolete).

Meanings of Oversalted:

adjective

(of food) having too much salt added.

Usage examples:

Over-salted french fries

verb

To add too much salt to, make too salty; †to cure with salt for too long (obsolete).

Meanings of Oversalting:

verb

To add too much salt to, make too salty; †to cure with salt for too long (obsolete).

Meanings of Oversalts:

verb

To add too much salt to, make too salty; †to cure with salt for too long (obsolete).

Meanings of Oversaturate:

verb

To saturate excessively; to provide with more than sufficient of a substance for saturation. also without object: to become oversaturated.

Meanings of Oversaturated:

adjective

Excessively saturated; supersaturated.

Meanings of Oversaturating:

verb

To saturate excessively; to provide with more than sufficient of a substance for saturation. also without object: to become oversaturated.