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English
Etymology
From over- + strike.
Pronunciation
Verb
overstrike (third-person singular simple present overstrikes, present participle overstriking, simple past overstruck, past participle overstruck or (rare) overstricken)
- (obsolete, reflexive) To overreach oneself while striking.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:For as he in his rage him overstrooke, / He, ere he could his weapon backe repaire, / His side all bare and naked overtooke, / And with his mortal steel quite through the body strooke.
- (transitive) To cover up (a design, mark etc.) by stamping another on top of it; to superimpose a mark or logo on (a coin, stamp, etc.).
- (transitive) To strike (something) too hard.
Noun
overstrike (countable and uncountable, plural overstrikes)
- (numismatics) A coin that has been overstruck, i.e. coined more than once.
- (typography) The printing of one character over another, as - on top of L to produce Ł.
- (computing, uncountable) overtype (feature where input replaces existing characters instead of being inserted before them)
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