overfix
verbEtymology From over- + fix.
1
To fix exceedingly or excessively; fix beyond what is required
- Caution dictated a strategy not to "overfix" the dilemma of slavery, whose future was not clear and whose capacity to sow discontent was high.1998, Mark E. Brandon, Free in the World: American Slavery and Constitutional Failure:
- It is better to overfix rather than underfix.2008, K. H. Andy Choo, In Situ Hybridization Protocols - Page 328:
- Antonyms
- underfix