Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overweight
Participle: overweighted
Gerund: overweighting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overweight |
| you | overweight |
| he;she;it | overweights |
| we | overweight |
| you | overweight |
| they | overweight |
Perfect
| I | have overweighted |
| you | have overweighted |
| he;she;it | has overweighted |
| we | have overweighted |
| you | have overweighted |
| they | have overweighted |
Past
| I | overweighted |
| you | overweighted |
| he;she;it | overweighted |
| we | overweighted |
| you | overweighted |
| they | overweighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had overweighted |
| you | had overweighted |
| he;she;it | had overweighted |
| we | had overweighted |
| you | had overweighted |
| they | had overweighted |
Future
| I | will overweight |
| you | will overweight |
| he;she;it | will overweight |
| we | will overweight |
| you | will overweight |
| they | will overweight |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overweighted |
| you | will have overweighted |
| he;she;it | will have overweighted |
| we | will have overweighted |
| you | will have overweighted |
| they | will have overweighted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overweight |
| you | overweight |
| he;she;it | overweight |
| we | overweight |
| you | overweight |
| they | overweight |
Perfect
| I | have overweighted |
| you | have overweighted |
| he;she;it | have overweighted |
| we | have overweighted |
| you | have overweighted |
| they | have overweighted |
Imperfect
| I | overweighted |
| you | overweighted |
| he;she;it | overweighted |
| we | overweighted |
| you | overweighted |
| they | overweighted |
Pluperfect
| I | had overweighted |
| you | had overweighted |
| he;she;it | had overweighted |
| we | had overweighted |
| you | had overweighted |
| they | had overweighted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overweight |
| you | would overweight |
| he;she;it | would overweight |
| we | would overweight |
| you | would overweight |
| they | would overweight |
Perfect
| I | would have overweighted |
| you | would have overweighted |
| he;she;it | would have overweighted |
| we | would have overweighted |
| you | would have overweighted |
| they | would have overweighted |
Imperative
| you | overweight |
| we | Let's overweight |
| you | overweight |
Verbs conjugated like 'overweight'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overweight'
overweigh,
overfreight,
overnight,
oversight,
deweight,
overwait,
overwit,
preweight,
reweight,
underweight,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Germanic *uber
6. Old English ofer-
7. Middle English over-
8. English over-
9. English weight
10. English overweight
11. From over- + weight.
Sample Sentences
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Such things are not for us to know. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and over-weight our feeble reason till it fell and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
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By noon the fat, perspiring, and importantly busy merchant arrives, overweighted with red blood, fat, and responsibility, for a game of manille or dominoes with three or four old cronies. [1916, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, Babette: A Novel, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 240:]
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Throughout the country there were: rupture of telecommunications, resulting amongst other things from telegraph wires and posts overweighted by snow or struck down by gales; [...]. [1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 158:]
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We also over-weight such vaine future conjectures, which infant-spirits give us. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
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Kinnel explained it, the problem at Select High Income was that it overweighted mortgage bonds and underweighted other types of corporate debt, a strategy that backfired when the mortgage market collapsed. [2009 January 11, Geraldine Fabrikant, “How Safe Is That Nest Egg, Anyhow?”, in New York Times:]