overfast

adj, adv, verb — 3 senses

overfast

adj

Etymology From over- + fast.

1

Too quick.

overfast

adv

Etymology From over- + fast.

1

Too quickly.

1914-1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear MacDonald shook his head. “Man, you are surely travelling overfast,” said he. “I have heard no evidence yet that any stranger was ever in the house at all.”

overfast

verb

Etymology From over- + fast.

1

To refrain from food to an excessive degree.

[…] overfasting could make a monk too exhausted to pray […]2023, Jamie Kreiner, The Wandering Mind:

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