Meaning

(intransitive) To make an excessively high offer to pay or accept a price..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To make an excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
2. (transitive) To outbid.
3. (intransitive, card games) To announce a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.
4. An excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
5. (card games) The announcement of a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.
6. simple past and past participle of overbide

Word Forms

• overbids
• overbidding
• overbid

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Use overbid when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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