Meaning

To make spelling mistakes by adding extra letters..

Definitions by Sense

1. To make spelling mistakes by adding extra letters.
2. To state something in too much detail or too explicitly.
3. To take over by a magic spell.

Example Sentences

“Exactly,” said the professor; “he overspells in some places, but it was not for its spelling but for its honesty that I laid it before you, Mr. Trustee.”

...author attempts a little more, and, like Lowell in the 'Biglow Papers,' rather overspells his dialect.

If you overspelled by adding an extra letter or letters, capitalize the letters on each side of the spot where you committed the overspell.

The main difference between America's humor and England's humour is that they overspell it.

He admits his first attempts were overworked and overspelled, "as though a chicken had walked over them."

On the contrary, exactly those principles are already overspelled.

A river of black gore gushed from the wound, And reeling back he fell supine on earth : A ghastly glamour overspelled his eye, And thro' and over all his mailed skin :

She smiled like one who might have been A daughter of the Fairy Queen ; And all the people who beheld The Vision pass, were overspelled, And, looking in her wondrous eyes, Straight dreamed themselves in Paradise.

Word Forms

• overspells
• overspelling
• overspelled

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When Should You Use Overspell?

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

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