<B>overmantel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of decorative work placed above a mantelpiece, often a piece of ornamental cabinet-work with or without a mirror. </DL>
<A NAME="overmark">
<B>overmark, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to mark or grade too generously. </DL>
<B>overmatch, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to be more than a match for; surpass; outdo. <DD><I>noun </I> a person or thing that is more than a match. </DL>
<A NAME="overmike">
<B>overmike, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) to amplify too much with a microphone. <BR> <I>Ex. Because the show, like all Broadway shows, is damnably overmiked, it is hard to tell what the quality of her voice may be (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overmuch">
<B>overmuch, </B>adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> too much. </DL>
<A NAME="overnice">
<B>overnice, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> too fastidious. (SYN) finical. </DL>
<A NAME="overnight">
<B>overnight, </B>adverb, adjective, noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adv. </I> <B>1. </B>during the night; through the night. <BR> <I>Ex. to stay overnight with a friend.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>on the night before. <BR> <I>Ex. Preparations were made overnight for an early start the next morning.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>at once; immediately; in a very short time. <BR> <I>Ex. Change will not come overnight.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>done or occurring during the night. <BR> <I>Ex. an overnight stop, overnight hospitality.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>for the night. <BR> <I>Ex. overnight guests. An overnight bag contains articles needed for one night's stay.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or having to do with the night before. <DD><I>noun </I> the previous evening. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to stay overnight. <BR> <I>Ex. to overnight at a hotel.</I> </DL>
<B>overnutrition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> ingestion of too much or unnecessary food, especially in an unbalanced diet of more fat, calcium, or other food substance than the body can effectively use. </DL>
<A NAME="overoccupied">
<B>overoccupied, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> too crowded; not providing sufficient space. <BR> <I>Ex. Its street scenes ... have an impressive shabbiness--that stained and damaged identity of overoccupied housing and underoccupied people (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overorganize">
<B>overorganize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to subject to excessive organization; organize too much. </DL>
<A NAME="overpaid">
<B>overpaid, </B>verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> the past tense and past participle of <B>overpay.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="overpaint">
<B>overpaint, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to paint (as one picture or layer) over or upon another. <BR> <I>Ex. Icons were heavily overpainted and smudged by centuries of candle smoke (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to overemphasize; exaggerate. </DL>
<A NAME="overparted">
<B>overparted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having too difficult a part, or too many parts, to play. <BR> <I>Ex. to be overparted in a play.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overpass">
<B>overpass, </B>noun, verb, <B>-passed</B> or <B>-past,</B> <B>-passing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a bridge over a road, railroad, or canal. <BR> <I>Ex. Drive several miles down the turnpike, around the cloverleaf, under an overpass (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to pass over (as a region or bounds). <BR> <I>Ex. The next few miles would be no light thing for the whale-boats to overpass (Rudyard Kipling).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to go beyond; exceed; surpass. <BR> <I>Ex. Men Who overpass their kind (Robert Browning).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to pass without notice; overlook; disregard. <BR> <I>Ex. All the beauties of the East He slightly view'd, and slightly overpass'd (Milton).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to pass over or across something. <DD><B> 2. </B>to pass by or away. <BR> <I>Ex. I view her ... As a sweet sunset almost overpast (William E. Henley).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to remain unnoticed. </DL>
<A NAME="overpay">
<B>overpay, </B>transitive verb, <B>-paid,</B> <B>-paying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to pay too much. <BR> <I>Ex. This high official ... Is grossly overpaid (A. P. Herbert).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to pay more than (an amount due). </DL>
<A NAME="overpayment">
<B>overpayment, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> too great a payment. </DL>
<A NAME="overpeople">
<B>overpeople, </B>transitive verb, <B>-pled,</B> <B>-pling.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to fill with too many people; overpopulate. </DL>
<A NAME="overperform">
<B>overperform, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to perform with interpretation not justified in the score or script. <BR> <I>Ex. Monteverdi's late four-part Mass also seemed slightly overperformed for what is basically a fairly austere work: a lot of detail was pressed to our notice, and the character of some movements was almost parodied (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overpersuade">
<B>overpersuade, </B>transitive verb, <B>-suaded,</B> <B>-suading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to bring over by persuasion, especially against one's inclination or intention. <BR> <I>Ex. I should have left you before now, if Mrs. Jakeman had not overpersuaded me (William Godwin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overpersuasion">
<B>overpersuasion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of overpersuading. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being overpersuaded. </DL>
<A NAME="overplaid">
<B>overplaid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a plaid pattern appearing over another pattern on woven fabrics. <DD><B> 2. </B>cloth with such a combination of patterns. </DL>
<A NAME="overplant">
<B>overplant, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to plant in excess or beyond what is required. <BR> <I>Ex. A drought in one area of the country encourages farmers in another area to overplant their crops in the hope of making a better profit.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overplay">
<B>overplay, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to play (as a part) in an exaggerated manner; overact. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to count too heavily on the power or advantage of. <BR> <I>Ex. The diplomat was careful not to overplay his hand during the negotiations.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to play better than; surpass; defeat. <DD><B> 4. </B>to hit (a golf ball) past the green. </DL>
<A NAME="overplease">
<B>overplease, </B>transitive verb, <B>-pleased,</B> <B>-pleasing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to please too much. <BR> <I>Ex. He was not overpleased with your reply.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overplus">
<B>overplus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an amount left over; surplus. <DD><B> 2. </B>too great an amount; excess. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) He was ruined, morally, by an overplus of the very same ingredient [purpose] (Hawthorne).</I> </DL>
<B>overpopulation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> too great a population. <BR> <I>Ex. Overpopulation ... affects a great many other needs of mankind besides bread (Julian Huxley).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overpower">
<B>overpower, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to overcome or conquer; master; overwhelm. <BR> <I>Ex. He overpowered all his enemies. He overpowered his assailant. The thought of one man owning all those books overpowered him (Winston Churchill).</I> (SYN) vanquish, defeat, overthrow. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be much greater or stronger than. <BR> <I>Ex. The wind brought a terrible smell which overpowered all others. Anger overpowered every other feeling.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to provide with an excess of power. <BR> <I>Ex. to overpower an automobile.</I> adv. <B>overpoweringly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="overpraise">
<B>overpraise, </B>verb, <B>-praised,</B> <B>-praising,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> to praise too much or too highly. <DD><I>noun </I> too much or too high praise. </DL>
<A NAME="overprescribe">
<B>overprescribe, </B>intransitive verb, transitive verb, <B>-scribed,</B> <B>-scribing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to prescribe drugs, especially narcotics, in excess of the patient's actual need. <BR> <I>Ex. When a doctor seems to be regularly overprescribing, he gets two warnings (Time). I cannot tolerate the overprescribing of unnecessary and expensive drugs (H. P. Bower).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overprescription">
<B>overprescription, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or practice of overprescribing; unnecessary or excessive prescription of medicines. </DL>
<A NAME="overpressure">
<B>overpressure, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>excessive pressure; a pressing or being pressed too hard, especially with study or intellectual work. <BR> <I>Ex. The intellectual overpressure of children in the schools (Popular Science Monthly).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>pressure over and above the normal atmospheric pressure, such as that generated by explosions. <BR> <I>Ex. Any target within this radius and vulnerable to the specified overpressure will be destroyed (United States Air Force Report on the Ballistic Missile).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overprice">
<B>overprice, </B>transitive verb, <B>-priced,</B> <B>-pricing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to put or set at too high a price; price higher than the real value. <BR> <I>Ex. an overpriced gadget.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overprint">
<B>overprint, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to print or stamp over with additional marks or matter, as in making revisions, or in color work. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Photography.) to print (a positive) darker than intended. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>any mark, design, or writing printed across a stamp to change its use or value. <DD><B> 2. </B>a postage stamp printed with such a mark. </DL>
<A NAME="overprize">
<B>overprize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-prized,</B> <B>-prizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to prize or value too highly; overrate. </DL>
<A NAME="overproduce">
<B>overproduce, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-duced,</B> <B>-ducing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to produce more than is needed. <DD><B> 2. </B>to produce more than can be sold, or more than can be sold at a profit. <BR> <I>Ex. Pig iron has been overproduced ... in recent years (London Daily News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="overproduction">
<B>overproduction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the production of more than is needed. <BR> <I>Ex. Problems of surplus must be met ... by adjusting price supports to remove incentives for overproduction (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the production of more than can be sold at a profit. </DL>
