OVERPAY (overpaid)

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Irregular inflected form: overpaid   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overpay mean? 

• OVERPAY (verb)
  The verb OVERPAY has 1 sense:

1. pay too much

  Familiarity information: OVERPAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERPAY (verb)

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)

 Context examples 

There are some who say, sire, said the burly De Clisson, that the score is already overpaid, for that without Gascon help Bertrand had not been taken at Auray, nor had King John been overborne at Poictiers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)