"overreplacement" meaning in All languages combined

See overreplacement on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: overreplacements [plural]
Etymology: From over- + replacement. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|replacement}} over- + replacement Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} overreplacement (countable and uncountable, plural overreplacements)
  1. The state wherein a substance, having previously been reduced or removed, has or is being replaced by re-adding it, but overly so, resulting in more of the substance than normal. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Drugs, Medicine, Pathology

Inflected forms

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