Overstore
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overstore is a verb meaning To overstock; to save more than is needed.
Meaning
To overstock; to save more than is needed.
More Meanings
- To open more stores than the retail market needs.
- To imprint (something) upon the memory such that it includes additional emotional content and/or influences other thoughts and memories.
- To overfill or overschool the mind (with certain thoughts).
- (computing) To overwrite memory or storage.
- An instance of overstoring, a surplus.
- The opening of too many stores or stores that are too large.
- (obsolete) To attempt to store more than the capacity into which something is put.
Example Sentences
Like fat cells, the spleen can overstore.
even the Ocean it self would have been long since over-stored with Fiſh
With improved protein diets, there seems to be biochemical message which tells the organisms to overstore essential amino acids and other brain chemicals.
This fish is long in growing; but breeds exceedingly in a water that pleases him; yea, in many ponds so fast, as to overstore them, and starve the other fish.
Word Forms
- overstores
- overstoring
- overstored
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include overstock, oversupply, overbuy, overpurchase, oversend, oversell.
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