Contextualizebeta

overreplace

verb

Etymology

From over- + replace.

  1. derived from *pleth₂-✻ — “to spread”
  2. derived from πλατεῖα
  3. derived from platēa — “plaza, wide street”
  4. derived from place — “place, an open space”
  5. inherited from plæċe — “place, an open space, street”
  6. inherited from place
  7. prefixed as replace — “re + place”
  8. prefixed as overreplace — “over + replace”

Definitions

  1. To replace in excess

    • While it is a common error to overreplace blood losses and to give too great volumes of electrolyte solutions to elderly patients, it is just as common to give too little.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for overreplace. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA