overequip

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verb

To furnish with too much equipment.

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Meanings

verboverequip (third-person singular simple present overequips, present participle overequipping, simple past and past participle overequipped)

present singular third person overequips · participle present overequipping · participle past overequipped · past overequipped

  1. transitiveTo furnish with too much equipment.

    More precisely, he is overequipped: among the items he takes from London are a collapsible canoe, a Union Jack, six linen suits, an astrolabe and a portable humidor.

    2007 September 4, Margalit Fox, “Bill Deedes, Journalist in Britain, Is Dead at 94”, in New York Times

Origin

From over- + equip.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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