overcapacitate

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verb

To exhaust the capacity of.

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Meanings

verbovercapacitate (third-person singular simple present overcapacitates, present participle overcapacitating, simple past and past participle overcapacitated)

present singular third person overcapacitates · participle present overcapacitating · participle past overcapacitated · past overcapacitated

  1. transitiveTo exhaust the capacity of.

    It is a very flat town, and this storm overcapacitated the storm drainage in the city and, believe you me, it put Salina under water.

    1951, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 1013
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    More importantly, operational constraints on airport density (maximum service radius restrictions and the limit of two stops on longhaul trips) tend to overcapacitate the air network even in the deterministic cases.

    2001, Karen R. Smilowitz, Design and Operation of Multimode, Multiservice Logistics Systems, page 58
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APA

overcapacitate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcapacitate

MLA

“overcapacitate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcapacitate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overcapacitate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overcapacitate.

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