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OVERPAY
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Irregular inflected form: overpaid
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they overpay ... he / she / it overpays
Past simple: overpaid
Past participle: overpaid
-ing form: overpaying
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pay too much
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "overpay" is one way to...):
pay (give money, usually in exchange for goods or services)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
Antonym:
underpay (pay too little)
Derivation:
overpayment (the act of paying too much)
overpayment (a payment larger than needed or expected)
