ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overspell

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Overspell is a verb meaning To make spelling mistakes by adding extra letters.

Meaning

To make spelling mistakes by adding extra letters.

More Meanings

  1. To state something in too much detail or too explicitly.
  2. To take over by a magic spell.

Example Sentences

On the contrary, exactly those principles are already overspelled.
The main difference between America's humor and England's humour is that they overspell it.
...author attempts a little more, and, like Lowell in the 'Biglow Papers,' rather overspells his dialect.
He admits his first attempts were overworked and overspelled, "as though a chicken had walked over them."

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misspell, mistype, mis-spell, mispell, misscribe, typo.

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