Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to overstore
Participle: overstored
Gerund: overstoring
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | overstore |
| you | overstore |
| he;she;it | overstores |
| we | overstore |
| you | overstore |
| they | overstore |
Perfect
| I | have overstored |
| you | have overstored |
| he;she;it | has overstored |
| we | have overstored |
| you | have overstored |
| they | have overstored |
Past
| I | overstored |
| you | overstored |
| he;she;it | overstored |
| we | overstored |
| you | overstored |
| they | overstored |
Pluperfect
| I | had overstored |
| you | had overstored |
| he;she;it | had overstored |
| we | had overstored |
| you | had overstored |
| they | had overstored |
Future
| I | will overstore |
| you | will overstore |
| he;she;it | will overstore |
| we | will overstore |
| you | will overstore |
| they | will overstore |
Future Perfect
| I | will have overstored |
| you | will have overstored |
| he;she;it | will have overstored |
| we | will have overstored |
| you | will have overstored |
| they | will have overstored |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | overstore |
| you | overstore |
| he;she;it | overstore |
| we | overstore |
| you | overstore |
| they | overstore |
Perfect
| I | have overstored |
| you | have overstored |
| he;she;it | have overstored |
| we | have overstored |
| you | have overstored |
| they | have overstored |
Imperfect
| I | overstored |
| you | overstored |
| he;she;it | overstored |
| we | overstored |
| you | overstored |
| they | overstored |
Pluperfect
| I | had overstored |
| you | had overstored |
| he;she;it | had overstored |
| we | had overstored |
| you | had overstored |
| they | had overstored |
Conditional
Present
| I | would overstore |
| you | would overstore |
| he;she;it | would overstore |
| we | would overstore |
| you | would overstore |
| they | would overstore |
Perfect
| I | would have overstored |
| you | would have overstored |
| he;she;it | would have overstored |
| we | would have overstored |
| you | would have overstored |
| they | would have overstored |
Imperative
| you | overstore |
| we | Let's overstore |
| you | overstore |
Verbs conjugated like 'overstore'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'overstore'
overscore,
overstare,
overrestore,
overshare,
oversmoke,
overstarve,
overstate,
overstir,
overstock,
overstow,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From over- + store.
Sample Sentences
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This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish. [1653, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:]
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even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh [a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:]
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It merely results in storing up energy at a very rapid rate; you can overstore and then you feel the intoxication of it, but that is overcome by a reasonable use of the breathing exercise. [1923, Mary C. Ferriter, Truth of Life, Love, Liberty, page 100:]
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If the market cannot be counted on for supplies later in the season and information on crops and stocks is absent, those who are able will tend to overstore in their own households. [1985, Agricultural Markets in the Semi-arid Tropics, page 310:]
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With improved protein diets, there seems to be biochemical message which tells the organisms to overstore essential amino acids and other brain chemicals. [1985, Ted Tjossem, “Showcase/Forum Summarization Statement”, in The President's Committee on Mental Retardation: National Prevention Showcase and Forum: September 15-17, 1982, page 329:]
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Thus, a larger population of seeds is left in the ground to germinate, thereby exploiting the tendency of squirrels, jays, and other animals to overstore nuts by burying (planting) them when available. [2014, Ken Mudge, Steve Gabriel, Farming the Woods, page 103:]
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Like fat cells, the spleen can overstore. [2016, Steven Rosenblatt, Keith Kirts, The Birth of Acupuncture in America:]
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On every hand flourish trees, in the prime of a full score of years, Nature's aviaries, which are preparing hereafter to overstore the fruiteries from their burdened boughs, and now diversify the prospect with green and shade. [1847 December, “Horticulture, Natural and Intellectual”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 13, number 2, page 50:]
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When the gravity of the gyle is about 45 lbs. per barrel, and the temperature of setting 58° or 60° Fahr. (14°.4 to 15°.5 C.) , the atmosphere being at the ordinary temperature and barometric pressure, provided the yeast be of good quality, about 2 to 2 1/2 lbs per barrel will be sufficient, and it may happen that this quantity may in some cases overstore the tun. [1877, Encyclopædia of Chemistry, page 316:]
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This is an area of vast geography and great retail growth. We can't overstore it. [1972, Booton Herndon, Satisfaction Guaranteed:]
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One can observe expansion-deterring investment in retailing, for example, where a firm may "overstore" a geographic area to limit the expansion of rivals. [1981, Steven C. Salop, Strategy, Predation, and Antitrust Analysis, page 55:]
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While it is in their best interest to not overstore an area and to encourage a tenant mix that fits the marketplace, there have been may examples of malls that should not have been built or at least should not have been built with the mix of department store tenants as anchors which have emerged. [1982, John S. Thompson, Site Selection, page 193:]
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And, even if you do not unintentionally overstore your markets, over-expansion by your competitors will produce similar effects. [1990, Challenges for the Convenience Store Industry in the 1990s, page 175:]
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This inquisition, with its ardent commitment to interpretation and further interpretation, is the complementary process by which presented images overstored with expressive intention can have their meanings developed, brought forth in the full array of their latent possibility. [1986, Richard H. Brodhead, The School of Hawthorne, page 167:]
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There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories . [2006, Marcus Lira Brandão, Frederico Guilherme Graeff, Neurobiology of Mental Disorders, page 36:]
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This in turn can cause a memory to be “overstored,” as a result of which it vividly resurfaces, sparking the symptoms of PTSD. [2012, Maxwell J. Mehlman, Transhumanist Dreams and Dystopian Nightmares, page 198:]
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Thoughts are also subject to the dominant receptiveness of overstored delusional memory structures. [2023, Dieter K. Christmann, Schizophrenia - Sick search engine the brain, page 140:]
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The wag, knowing the natural frailties of the parents, then asked— "Who combed your hair this morning, my pretty little boy?" and the answer was, very much to the astonishment of the parents, no doubt— "The Holy Ghost." While it is quite right to store the infant mind so far, it is just possible — indeed likely to overstore it. [1878, Archibald Paul, Random Writings, page 113:]
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Miss Goode became temporarily lost in the mazes of her memory, which was, indeed, somewhat overstored with sayings which had been repeated to her. [1894, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal - Volume 75, page 267:]
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Carstairs, on The Behemoth, drifted into sight as they started, his mind overstored by a night's reading, over-full of wise saws as to how to hunt a pack of hounds. [1904, Dorothea Conyers, Peter's Pedigree, page 173:]
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An attempt to overstore this new pitch command resulted in a real-time pitch maneuver being commanded 23 times at 1-minute intervals, due to an undetected bit error in the command message. [1967, Boeing Company, Lunar Orbiter I: Extended-mission Operations - Issue 848, page 3:]
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Other FPL/I debugging features include: 1. each time or each n times that a particular identifier is referenced in any way or is referenced in order to overstore the element value, the execution of the program is temporarily suspended, the value of the identifier is displayed, and the CAPS user given the opportunity to use any of the available debugging features; [1968, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Department of Computer Science, Internal Report - Issue 257, page 46:]
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BLH data from successive iterations overstore the original set of integrated BLH data. [1976, Ramani Ramakrishnan, Donald Randall, Robert N. Hosier, A computer program to predict rotor rotational noise of a stationary rotor from blade loading coefficients, page 26:]
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If a satellite ephemeris is used for a planetary system, the gravitational constant for the planetary system obtained from the satellite ephemeris will overstore the value from the planetary ephemeris in the ODP. [2005, Theodore D. Moyer, Formulation for Observed and Computed Values of Deep Space, page 74:]
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At user option, data from this operation overstore or are appended to original data. [2007, Leonard L. Grigsby, Power System Stability and Control, page 14-48:]
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A response of y will overstore the passwdfile as, again, the previous message is simply a warning. [2018, Raj Rajgopal, Handbook of Heterogeneous Networking, page 83-9:]