Overpowder

Quick meaning: Overpowder is a verb meaning (transitive) To use too much powder on.

Meaning

(transitive) To use too much powder on.

More Meanings

1. (firearms) Serving to hold in the gunpowder.

Example Sentences

[…] to allow for the extra space taken up by the special overpowder wad.

They overpowder and overperfume themselves, and color their finger-nails too harsh a color.

These include overpowdering a latent print and applying too much pressure when dusting the print.

Writing in his quaint way of the salt of the word, he says, "Indeed, a man may overpowder, and there is discretion in salting."

Word Forms

• overpowders
• overpowdering
• overpowdered

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