overhandle
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edit- Rhymes: -ændəl
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editoverhandle (third-person singular simple present overhandles, present participle overhandling, simple past and past participle overhandled)
- (transitive) To handle excessively.
- 2008 March 26, Florence Fabricant, “Croissants Made by Robots”, in New York Times[1]:
- What makes these goodies different, the company says, is that they are formed by robotic machines so that the dough is not toughened by overhandling.