overbulk

verb — 2 senses

overbulk

verb

Etymology From over- + bulk.

1

To be more bulky than; to tower over.

  • Achilles must or now be cropped Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil To overbulk us all.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]:
2

To make bulky

  • 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.2017, Jose-Luis Ruiz, Supra-Gingival Minimally Invasive Dentistry:

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