overbulk
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
overbulk (third-person singular simple present overbulks, present participle overbulking, simple past and past participle overbulked)
- To be more bulky than; to tower over.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- Achilles must or now be cropped
Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil
To overbulk us all.
- To make bulky
- 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry:
- Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.
References[edit]
- “overbulk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.