overequip

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ equip.

Verb

overequip (third-person singular simple present overequips, present participle overequipping, simple past and past participle overequipped)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with too much equipment.
    • 2007 September 4, Margalit Fox, “Bill Deedes, Journalist in Britain, Is Dead at 94”, in New York Times:
      More precisely, he is overequipped: among the items he takes from London are a collapsible canoe, a Union Jack, six linen suits, an astrolabe and a portable humidor.