overreplace

To replace in excess

Verb

  1. To replace in excess
    • While it is a common error to overreplace blood losses and to give too great volumes of electrolyte solutions to elderly patients, it is just as common to give too little. - 1963, John Ervin Jesseph, Henry Nelson...

Origin

From over- + replace.

Forms

overreplaces overreplacing overreplaced

Related

overreplacement

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