"overcapacitate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: overcapacitates [present, singular, third-person], overcapacitating [participle, present], overcapacitated [participle, past], overcapacitated [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} overcapacitate (third-person singular simple present overcapacitates, present participle overcapacitating, simple past and past participle overcapacitated)
  1. (transitive) To exhaust the capacity of. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-overcapacitate-en-verb-dJOnDxBV Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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