overbulk

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verb

To be more bulky than; to tower over.

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Meanings

verboverbulk (third-person singular simple present overbulks, present participle overbulking, simple past and past participle overbulked)

present singular third person overbulks · participle present overbulking · participle past overbulked · past overbulked

  1. To be more bulky than; to tower over.

    Achilles must or now be cropped Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil To overbulk us all.

    c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]
  2. To make bulky

    Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.

    2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry

Origin

From over- + bulk.

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APA

overbulk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overbulk

MLA

“overbulk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overbulk. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overbulk,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overbulk.

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