Overbow

Quick meaning: Overbow is a verb meaning (transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.

Meaning

(transitive) To bow or bend (something) over beyond its natural trajectory; to bend in a contrary direction.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To bend too far.
2. (transitive) To overburden.
3. (archery, transitive) To provide (an archer) with a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
4. (archery, intransitive) To use a bow that requires more strength than the archer can fully draw.
5. To use too much pressure when playing a stringed instrument using a bow.
6. A structural piece that arches over another piece.
7. (chiefly poetic, transitive) To arch over.

Example Sentences

A thicker back will bend less, and be less prone to overbow and the resultant cracking.

The amount by which the plate is overbowed must correspond to the thickness of the mandible.

The clouds and sun that overbow Low nature's movement, they alone have seen Her truth in aspiration's flower.

Now her white lips would kiss away the gore— Speed, Alice, speed, or thou Wilt have but my dead frame to overbow!

Word Forms

• overbows
• overbowing
• overbowed

Related Words

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