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Etymology

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From over- +‎ fix.

Verb

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overfix (third-person singular simple present overfixes, present participle overfixing, simple past and past participle overfixed)

  1. (transitive) To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required
    • 1998, Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure:
      Caution dictated a strategy not to "overfix" the dilemma of slavery, whose future was not clear and whose capacity to sow discontent was high.
    • 2008, K. H. Andy Choo, In Situ Hybridization Protocols - Page 328:
      It is better to overfix rather than underfix.

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