overnumber

English

Etymology

over- +‎ number

Verb

overnumber (third-person singular simple present overnumbers, present participle overnumbering, simple past and past participle overnumbered)

  1. (transitive, archaic or non-native speakers' English) To outnumber.
    • 1900, United States, Annual Reports of the War Department, War Department, page 774:
      In the most acute cases they may greatly overnumber the white corpuscles and epithelial cells.
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