overtint

present singular third person overtints · participle present overtinting · participle past overtinted · past overtinted

1. transitiveTo tint excessively.

   The actual amount of color required is very small and care must be exercised not to overtint the wool, or a bluish tone will be obtained.

   1909, Joseph Merritt Matthews, Laboratory Manual of Dyeing and Textile Chemistry, page 31

2. transitiveTo apply another tint over.

plural overtints

1. A tint layered over another.

   She wore the same dress she had worn that Sunday of their tryst; that exquisite dress, with the faint lavender overtint, like the tender colours of the beautiful day he made his own.

   1905, Booth Tarkington, The Conquest of Canaan