"overfix" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "underfix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "fix"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + fix",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From over- + fix.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overfixes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overfixing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overfixed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overfixed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overfix (third-person singular simple present overfixes, present participle overfixing, simple past and past participle overfixed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with over-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure:",
          "text": "Caution dictated a strategy not to \"overfix\" the dilemma of slavery, whose future was not clear and whose capacity to sow discontent was high.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, K. H. Andy Choo, In Situ Hybridization Protocols - Page 328:",
          "text": "It is better to overfix rather than underfix.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required"
      ],
      "id": "en-overfix-en-verb-zeZXRxqd",
      "links": [
        [
          "fix",
          "fix"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overfix"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "underfix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "over",
        "3": "fix"
      },
      "expansion": "over- + fix",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From over- + fix.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "overfixes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overfixing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overfixed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "overfixed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "overfix (third-person singular simple present overfixes, present participle overfixing, simple past and past participle overfixed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms prefixed with over-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1998, Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure:",
          "text": "Caution dictated a strategy not to \"overfix\" the dilemma of slavery, whose future was not clear and whose capacity to sow discontent was high.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, K. H. Andy Choo, In Situ Hybridization Protocols - Page 328:",
          "text": "It is better to overfix rather than underfix.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fix",
          "fix"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "overfix"
}