overcatch

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verb

To overtake.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

verbovercatch (third-person singular simple present overcatches, present participle overcatching, simple past and past participle overcaught)

present singular third person overcatches · participle present overcatching · participle past overcaught · past overcaught

  1. UKdialectaltransitiveTo overtake.

    She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught , That in the very dore him overcaught

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To catch too many; to overfish.

Origin

From over- + catch.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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