overbulk

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ bulk.

Verb

overbulk (third-person singular simple present overbulks, present participle overbulking, simple past and past participle overbulked)

1. To be more bulky than; to tower over.
   • c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     Achilles must or now be cropped
     Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil
     To overbulk us all.

2. To make bulky
   • 2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry:

     Fabricating this type of thin margin with a computer-aided designed and manufactured (CAD-CAM) restoration may be more challenging, overbulking the margins at CAD design and after adhesive cementation.

References

• “overbulk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.