overmeasure

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

overmeasure (third-person singular simple present overmeasures, present participle overmeasuring, simple past and past participle overmeasured)

To measure or estimate with a result that is larger than it should be.

Noun edit

overmeasure (countable and uncountable, plural overmeasures)

Excessive measure; surplus.

References edit

“overmeasure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.