Meanings
verbovergesture (third-person singular simple present overgestures, present participle overgesturing, simple past and past participle overgestured)
present singular third person overgestures · participle present overgesturing · participle past overgestured · past overgestured
- To gesture excessively.
He overgestured and laughed too much, and at some point in his young life he'd had the bone of his skull opened at the temples and filled with jagged lightning-flash sections of purple-black alloy cement.
2005, Richard Morgan, Woken Furies, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 487
Origin
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overgesture. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overgesture
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“overgesture.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overgesture. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overgesture,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overgesture.
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