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overlapping

verbadjectivenouncommon in dialogue

That overlaps something else

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of overlappresent participle and gerund of overlap

adjective

  1. 1

    That overlaps something else

    A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.

noun

  1. 1

    The situation in which things overlap.

    This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.

Forms

plural
overlappings
comparative
more overlapping
superlative
most overlapping
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).