Meanings
present singular third person superadds · participle present superadding · participle past superadded · past superadded
- transitiveTo add on top of a previous addition.
Locke's claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem[…]
2007, Lex Newman, The Cambridge companion to Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding"1 more example
To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
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Translations
Catalan sobreafegir
- sobreafegirto add on top of a previous addition
Finnish lisätä, vielä lisätä
- lisätäto add on top of a previous addition
- vielä lisätäto add on top of a previous addition
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superadd. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superadd
“superadd.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superadd. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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