English Word Root: over

over, excessive
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1 overall   Speak   Example Sentences
a. general; comprehensive; from one end to the other; including everything
2 overbalance   Speak   Example Sentences
v. weigh more heavily; exceed in weight, value, or importance; surpass; throw off the balance
3 overbearing   Speak   Example Sentences
a. expecting unquestioning obedience; overwhelming in power or significance
4 overburden   Speak   Example Sentences
v. overcharge; take excessive burden; load with excessive weight
5 overcast   Speak   Example Sentences
a. covered or obscured, as with clouds or mist; gloomy; melancholy
6 overcharge   Speak   Example Sentences
n. overprice; a price that is too high
7 overcome   Speak   Example Sentences
v. defeat another in competition or conflict; conquer; prevail over
8 overconfidence   Speak   Example Sentences
n. excessive confidence; total certainty
9 overcook   Speak   Example Sentences
v. cook food for longer than necessary
10 overdo   Speak   Example Sentences
v. do something to an excessive degree
11 overdose   Speak   Example Sentences
n. excessive dose, especially of a narcotic
12 overdue   Speak   Example Sentences
a. past due; not paid at the scheduled time; late; delayed
13 overemphasize   Speak   Example Sentences
v. place special or excessive emphasis on
14 overestimate   Speak   Example Sentences
v. make too high an estimate of
15 overhaul   Speak   Example Sentences
v. examine or go over carefully for needed repairs; make extensive renovations or revisions on; renovate
16 overhear   Speak   Example Sentences
v. hear more of anything than was intended to be heard; hear again
17 overlap   Speak   Example Sentences
n. representation of common ground between two things; extend over and cover a part of
18 overlapping   Speak   Example Sentences
a. covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another
19 overload   Speak   Example Sentences
v. place too much a load on
20 overpass   Speak   Example Sentences
n. bridge formed by the upper level of a crossing of two highways at different levels
21 overpay   Speak   Example Sentences
v. pay too much; pay in excess of what is due
22 overpower   Speak   Example Sentences
v. overcome by superior force; overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
23 overproduction   Speak   Example Sentences
n. too much production or more than expected
24 overrate   Speak   Example Sentences
v. make too high an estimate of
25 override   Speak   Example Sentences
v. ride over or across; ride upon; trample down.
26 overrule   Speak   Example Sentences
v. decide against a decision that has already been made
27 overrun   Speak   Example Sentences
v. run or extend beyond normal or desired limit; overflow
28 overseas   Speak   Example Sentences
ad. beyond or across the sea; abroad
29 oversee   Speak   Example Sentences
v. supervise; manage; watch over and direct; examine or inspect
30 overshadow   Speak   Example Sentences
v. throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; obscure; cover with a superior influence
31 oversight   Speak   Example Sentences
n. unintentional omission or mistake; watchful care or management; supervision
32 overt   Speak   Example Sentences
a. open to view; not secret or hidden
33 overtake   Speak   Example Sentences
v. come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; catch up with; come upon from behind; capture; overcome
34 overtax   Speak   Example Sentences
v. heavily burden; tax above what is considered appropriate or just; tax too heavily
35 overthrow   Speak   Example Sentences
v. throw over; overturn; upset; turn upside down; cause to fall or to fail
36 overtime   Speak   Example Sentences
n. beyond the regular time
37 overtire   Speak   Example Sentences
v. tire excessively; fatigue to exhaustion
38 overture   Speak   Example Sentences
n. an opening or aperture; recess; introductory section or part, as of a poem
39 overturn   Speak   Example Sentences
v. reverse; overthrow; upset something
40 overweight   Speak   Example Sentences
n. the property of excessive fatness
41 overwhelm   Speak   Example Sentences
v. defeat; cover completely or make imperceptible; overcome by superior force ; charge someone with too many tasks
42 overwhelming   Speak   Example Sentences
a. overpowering in effect or strength; very great or intense; extreme
43 overwrought   Speak   Example Sentences
a. extremely disturbed from emotion