overmake

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verb

To make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo.

Scrabble 17
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Meanings

verbovermake (third-person singular simple present overmakes, present participle overmaking, simple past and past participle overmade)

present singular third person overmakes · participle present overmaking · participle past overmade · past overmade

  1. transitiveTo make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo.
  2. archaictransitiveTo make over or anew; recreate; remake.

    In a degree he has to overmake the reading-faculty in every strong-hearted student, who gets to understand him better by repeated perusal […]

    1921, Denton J. Snider, A Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson
nounovermake (plural overmakes)

plural overmakes

  1. That which is overmade; make-over.
  2. An oversupply; surplus.

Origin

From over- + make.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

makeover
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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