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OVERSPEND
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Irregular inflected form: overspent
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overspend ... he / she / it overspends
Past simple: overspended
Past participle: overspended
-ing form: overspending
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spend at a high rate
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "overspend" is one way to...):
consume; squander; ware; waste (spend extravagantly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
underspend (spend at less than the normal rate)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spend more than available of (a budget)
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "overspend" is one way to...):
spend (spend completely)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
underspend (spend less than the whole of (a budget, for example))
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